A Summary on We Forgot Janet Cooke
A Summary on We Forgot Janet Cooke’s Jimmy
In the article, We Forgot Janet Cooke’s Jimmy by Allan Andrews, it mentioned about a writer from The Washington Post named Janet Cooke , a former Journalist, and how she went crashing down right after she was just starting to rise up. It also talked about the never –ending discussion about Cooke even after a decade from the fiasco. And how different Journalists viewed the fiasco, a decade later.
Journalist, Janet Cooke, won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for her story on Jimmy , an eight year old who was a heroin addict. But all of Cooke’s success went crashing down when they discovered that Jimmy, the supposed to be an 8th yr. old heroin addict, was actually non-existent. Cooke lied about the story of the Jimmy who was said to be pushed into drugs by his mother’s live-in boyfriend, but this wasn’t all Cooke lied about, she also lied about her credentials, saying she graduated from Vassar College, spoke four languages and claimed to have attended the Sorbonne in Paris, all this made up stories were actually the cause of her landing the job at The Post. After the incident with Jimmy, Cooke lost her job at The Post and her Pulitzer Prize was taken back by Ben Bradlee, an editor at The Post, she was utterly humiliated and was brought down by her own colleagues, former employees and newshounds. This incident opened up issues on how reliable the reporters are in The Post , their education and credentials were questioned by the editors in The ToledoBlade and the Administrators at Vassar. There was a never-ending battle on Cooke’s sins, media-baching and reporter’s ethics.
A decade later, Benjamin Bradlee wrote an autobiography containing a chapter devoted to Cooke which details the behind-the-scenes, probes, counselings and confrontations of The Post editors. Then, fifteen years after the fiasco, Cooke emerged in a biographical magazine article written by Michael Sagar at GQ. Cooke then signed a contract with TriStar Pictures to
In the article, We Forgot Janet Cooke’s Jimmy by Allan Andrews, it mentioned about a writer from The Washington Post named Janet Cooke , a former Journalist, and how she went crashing down right after she was just starting to rise up. It also talked about the never –ending discussion about Cooke even after a decade from the fiasco. And how different Journalists viewed the fiasco, a decade later.
Journalist, Janet Cooke, won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for her story on Jimmy , an eight year old who was a heroin addict. But all of Cooke’s success went crashing down when they discovered that Jimmy, the supposed to be an 8th yr. old heroin addict, was actually non-existent. Cooke lied about the story of the Jimmy who was said to be pushed into drugs by his mother’s live-in boyfriend, but this wasn’t all Cooke lied about, she also lied about her credentials, saying she graduated from Vassar College, spoke four languages and claimed to have attended the Sorbonne in Paris, all this made up stories were actually the cause of her landing the job at The Post. After the incident with Jimmy, Cooke lost her job at The Post and her Pulitzer Prize was taken back by Ben Bradlee, an editor at The Post, she was utterly humiliated and was brought down by her own colleagues, former employees and newshounds. This incident opened up issues on how reliable the reporters are in The Post , their education and credentials were questioned by the editors in The ToledoBlade and the Administrators at Vassar. There was a never-ending battle on Cooke’s sins, media-baching and reporter’s ethics.
A decade later, Benjamin Bradlee wrote an autobiography containing a chapter devoted to Cooke which details the behind-the-scenes, probes, counselings and confrontations of The Post editors. Then, fifteen years after the fiasco, Cooke emerged in a biographical magazine article written by Michael Sagar at GQ. Cooke then signed a contract with TriStar Pictures to