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	Janet Cooke and Jimmy's World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, Cooke refused to provide his location, claiming that she needed to protect her sources and that her life would be in danger from drug dealers if she failed to do so.
		Cooke, unable to do so, finally admitted that she had never met Jimmy and that much of her story was fictitious.
		She blamed her decision to invent Jimmy on the high-pressure environment of the Washington Post, which was still riding high from the journalistic coup it had scored in the early seventies with the Watergate story.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /day/04_17_2001.html (449 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Case of Janet Cooke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Miss Cooke, the young fl woman who reported the story, later admitted that not only her resume but also her story was false.
		...In relation to Miss Cooke, whose work suffered from an excess of trust on the part of her editors, fl and white, the notion that fls are at a disadvantage in the newsroom is simply fantastic...
		...The editor of another section of the paper, where Miss Cooke had worked for a year and a half until her promotion to the city desk, revealed to Coleman after the story was published that she had had problems with Janet's stretching or distorting of the truth...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V72I2P48-1.htm (3895 words)

	The Online NewsHour: FREE SPEECH \| Jim Lehrer with Ben Bradlee \| The Janet Cooke Case \| PBS
		"It is tragedy that someone as talented and promising as Janet Cooke, with everything going for her, felt that she had to falsify the facts," said Bradlee at the time.
		The article renewed interest in the Cooke case and landed Sager and Cooke a movie deal that netted the two $1.6 million, but the film was never made and she soon receded again from public view.
		"Janet Cooke is a beautiful fl woman with a dramatic flair and vitality, and an extraordinary talent for writing," Bradlee opens the chapter in his autobiography about the ordeal.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bradlee/background_cooke.html (927 words)

	Accuracy In Media - AIM Report
		Cooke amassed extensive material about drug abuse, and Aplin-Brownlee thought it had potential for a story for the Metro section, and so she turned the reporter and the story she was working on over to city editor Milton Coleman.
		All Janet Cooke had to do was follow in the footsteps of her editor, Bob Woodward, and she might pull off the perfect journalistic crime.
		Cooke had been advised that if she was ordered by a court to disclose her source she might have to go to jail.
	www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1981/05a.html (4781 words)

	Dominant Ideology & Drugs in the Media
		Cooke quoted the mother as saying that she wasn't alarmed by her son's dealing ambitions "because drugs are as much a part of her world as they are of her son's".
		Cooke made the more general point that heroin use had "become part of life" among people in poor neighbourhoods - people who "feel cut off from the world around them" — often "filtering down to untold numbers of children like Jimmy who are bored with school and battered by life".
		Cooke eventually admitted she had not graduated from Vassar, but continued to insist that everything else, especially the Jimmy story, was true.
	www.drugtext.org /library/articles/923105.htm (6165 words)

	We forgot about Janet Cooke's Jimmy
		Cooke declined Bradley's invitation to talk with him for the book, but after 15 years of exile from professional and public life, Cooke emerged this summer in a 12,000-word biographical magazine article by Mike Sagar in the June issue of GQ.
		Cooke, according to Sagar, is now seeking ``the retrieval of her name from the files of infamy.'' Her 55 percent share in the planned film is apparently only a first step.
		The problem Janet Cooke, reporter, set out to investigate seems to be hounding the nation yet, and journalism is wasting time trying to decide if she should be allowed back into our ranks.
	www.toad.net /~andrews/jimmy.html (761 words)

	NewStandard: 6/5/96
		Cooke, whose 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning story proved to be a hoax, is sharing in the windfall added to the buzz.
		Cooke had been sidestepping a press obsessed with the details of her demise.
		Cooke, for her part, is less interested in reliving her transgressions in a tell-all book than in forging ahead in the periodical realm.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/06-96/06-05-96/c04li109.htm (1001 words)

	Media Ethics: Some Specific Problems. ERIC Digest.
		In detailing the events of the Janet Cooke incident, David L. Eason focuses on the pressures which may have led Cooke to concoct her report (Eason, 1986).
		Eason theorizes that Cooke, a young, fl, female reporter, may have felt compelled to give the liberal, white, male editors of the Post exactly what they seemed to demand: stories portraying the horrors of ghetto life.
		Cooke's ostracism from the profession was seen, at least by many within the established press, as a necessary step in the protection of the standards of truthfulness and accuracy in journalism.
	www.ericdigests.org /pre-9213/media.htm (1717 words)

	Ethics Essay Draft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1980, Janet Cooke was facing problems, meeting the deadlines for her Journalist job with the Washington Post.
		The point of Janets story was to enlighten the community with the knowledge of how bad the crime had gotten in areas of D.C. Janet successfully caught the eyes of many readers, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for this article which was published on the 29th of September in 1980.
		At the end, Janet Cooke resigned from her position and disappeared from the Journalism world for a good fifteen years, and Washington Post returned the Pulitzer Prize.
	mason.gmu.edu /~zgill/ethicsdraft.html (501 words)

	On The Media- Janet Cooke's Legacy
		Thus, when their editors or publishers want or need to know a source for what they print, they have to know it and be able to assure the community or the courts that they do.
		Cooke was 26, talented and fl -- a big plus in a mostly white newsroom in a mostly fl city.
		Janet Cooke's was more like a big bank robbery, and Jayson Blair's was more like gradual embezzlement.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_123104_cooke.html (887 words)

	[No title]
		Her mother, Janet Cooke, clung to the hope that her 19-year old daughter was still alive as she made a tearful plea on Austin's KVUE-TV for her safe return.
		Cooke, who was on winter break from Mesa Junior College in California, was at the home where she had grown up with her 17-year old sister, JoAnn.
		Janet Cooke said Rachel was planning to transfer to a college in Los Angeles to pursue studies in fashion design.
	www.oag.state.tx.us /criminal/clu1102/clupoet.htm (820 words)

	Journalism Ethics: Right name. Wrong game?
		The Cooke case is an egregious example of someone who violated the fundamental rules of journalism; however, if we look at those fundamental rules, they turn out to be very troublesome.
		The [Janet] Cooke case is an egregious example of someone who violated the fundamental rules of journalism; however, if we look at those fundamental rules, they turn out to be very troublesome.
		Enter Cooke: her transgressions became the pretext for a counter-revolution in American journalism, a reassertion of authority, a banishing of the New Journalism, a new fundamentalism of facts.
	www.news-council.org /archives/95igg.html (1627 words)

	JANET COOKE
		The public resurrection of confessed liar Janet Cooke is tantamount to the post-Watergate Richard Nixon.
		If Janet is telling the truth, and nothing but the truth, fifteen years after admitting she was caught lying about "Jimmy's World," it would be a new beginning.
		Her public reappearances, especially the recent recollections in GQ magazine, illustrate, Janet Cooke is still living in a world of fact, fantasy and half-truths.
	home.twcny.rr.com /jimmymac3/liar.htm (1086 words)

	Untitled Document
		In 1981 Janet Cooke was found guilty of not only fabricating a Pulitzer Prize winning story, but also lying about her graduation at Vasser college, which she did not attend.
		After being unsuccessful in locating him, Cooke took it upon herself to elaborate on the little information she had concerning the mystery and created a beautifully written article detail the struggles of little Jimmy’s life.
		Cooke’s superiors continued to look the other way when Cooke was unable to provide the location of little Jimmy or the names of any of his family members.
	www.unc.edu /~onyeanus/demons.html (1432 words)

	Forums For Justice - John and Patsy need lessons from the Cookes. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Robert Cooke has started a campaign to treat all missing people the same because if Rachel would have been 15 instead of 18 things might be different.
		Robert and Janet Cooke are not hiding behind lawyers and suing everything that breaths.
		Her family, however, immediately got in cars and took the route she'd have traveled - and they were the ones who spotted her little car off the freeway on a deserted stretch of road not far at all from my house.
	www.forumsforjustice.org /forums/showthread.php?t=2597 (1719 words)

	AIM Report - March B, 1983
		Janet Cooke demonstrated with her story about Jimmy, the non-existent eight-year-old heroin addict, that the editors of The Washington Post are more interested in sensation than in accuracy.
		Janet Cooke was the only person to be fired as a result of that scandal.
		They are continuing to tolerate "Cookeism," the cooking up of non-existent scandals by imaginative reporting that has little or no relationship to the facts.
	www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1983/03b.html (3498 words)

	The Chronicle: Daily news: 05/20/2003 -- 04
		Cooke, you'll recall, was the young fl reporter (she was 26, Blair is 27) who admitted to fabricating an article about an 8-year-old heroin addict.
		Cooke was fired, and the Post returned the Pulitzer Prize she had won for the article.
		Indeed, the toughest part of the Cooke disgrace was dealing with the suddenly sharpened skepticism and questioning attitudes directed our way by a few white peers and editors about our skill, our abilities, our credibility, our trustworthiness, even our right to work there.
	chronicle.com /free/2003/05/2003052004n.htm (1589 words)

	keyetv.com - Rachel Cooke's Disappearance Draws Psychic To Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cooke was 19-years-old when she disappeared while jogging near her home in 2002.
		The last place Cooke was seen alive was just a block and a half from her then family home.
		The Insider spotlighting the Rachel Cooke case is scheduled to air right here on CBS 42 at 6:30 p.m.
	keyetv.com /topstories/local_story_116173030.html (442 words)

	Journalism and ethics on the stage \| csmonitor.com
		NEW YORK – In 1981, when reporter Janet Cooke had to give back her Pulitzer Prize because she was found to have made up her story about an 8-year-old heroin addict, a teen in Newark, N.J., took note.
		Cooke's fabrication appeared in The Washington Post, Tracey Scott Wilson is exploring the issues of ethics and identity raised by that case in her latest play, "The Story."
		One difference between Cooke's experience and Wilson's play is that Yvonne never backs down about the truth of her story, with shocking consequences.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0204/p16s01-lire.html (987 words)

	TIME.com: A Fraud in the Pulitzers -- Apr. 27, 1981 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cooke, he was told, had not graduated from Vassar, as she had claimed in the biography submitted to the Pulitzer judges.
		Questioned by her editors, Cooke admitted that she had exaggerated her credentials (she had attended Vassar for one year and earned a B.A. from Toledo).
		Cooke had earned the assignment by writing what one editor described as a "brilliant" story on 14th Street, N.W., which is in a Washington section known for its pushers and hookers.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,924722,00.html (781 words)

	Taylor Daily Press: Task force to renew search for Rachel Cooke
		RENEWED SEARCH: Robert, left, and Janet Cooke speak to the media after the announcement that the Williamson County Sheriff's Office has formed a multi-agency task force to reexamine the case of their missing daughter, Rachel.
		Rachel's parents, Janet and Robert Cooke, were notified Wednesday by phone of the department's intent to renew the investigation.
		A $50,000 reward is being offered for reliable information leading to the return or location of Rachel Cooke or that helps identify anyone involved in her disappearance.
	www.taylordailypress.net /articles/2004/01/23/news/news02.txt (441 words)

	Nov 2000 Acid Test, Clink, Defalcate, Janet Cooke - Fraud In Other Words by Larry Adams
		The term, Janet Cooke, is a symbol for the worst in American investigative journalism; contrary to the term Watergate, which is a symbol for the best.
		Janet Cooke was a reporter for The Washington Post in 1980.
		Two days after winning the award, Cooke confessed, under intense scrutiny, that she made up the entire story about Jimmy.
	www.larry-adams.com /0011_article.htm (847 words)

	Catalogue of copycats
		The Washington Post journalist Janet Cooke won a Pulitzer prize in 1981 for her account of Jimmy, an eight-year-old heroin addict.
		Cooke later confessed she had made him up.
		The associate editor of the New Republic's scoops - from the Wall Street company which had erected a shrine to Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, to the religious sect whose followers believe George Bush senior is a descendant of God - made him the envy of his colleagues.
	foi.missouri.edu /mediacredibility/catalogue.html (600 words)

	Janet Cook Hansen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Janet was the "social" arm of the Deathsuite stranglehold on collegiate politics.
		Also, as a respectable elected public official, she was given free entry to parties at other campuses.
		Rumor has it that Janet went on to get her Ph.D., then slaved away tirelessly in a Dilbertian purgatory, before finally wising up and becoming a "fashion engineer." Do you like your clothes to twinkle when you move?
	www.truedorktimes.com /deathsuite/Janet.html (119 words)

	The Great Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine (Holodomor)
		It is stated that the Washington Post returned the Pulitzer awarded Janet Cooke in 1981, but that no action was taken by the Pulitzer Prize board.
		The release, faxed to Insight, says that while the Post did reveal to the Pulitzer committee that Cooke fabricated her source, it was the board that made the decision to withdraw the Pulitzer.
		He contends that the same standards applied to Cooke ought to be applied to Duranty.
	www.artukraine.com /famineart/duranty21.htm (366 words)

	Whatever Happened to … - former Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke sold movie rights to the fictitious story - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The former Washington Post reporter who had to return a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 because she fabricated the story of an 8-year-old heroin addict named "Jimmy" was last heard from in 1996 when she told all to writer Mike Sager for an article in GQ magazine.
		Timing of the release is of some importance to Sager and Cooke, as they then will harvest the other half of the $1.5 million.
		Sager told Romenesko that the split would be 55 percent for Cooke and 45 percent for him, after agents get their cut.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_15_16/ai_62024141 (344 words)

	Turning Tragedy Into Hope - Crime Justice & America - May 2004
		Janet and I want people to know what to do when a loved one becomes missing.
		In dealing with these tragedies, the parents of these children — the Cookes, Craig and Pamela Akers, Bob and Gay Smither, Don and Claudine Ryce, and John and Jo Ann Compton — as well as their families and friends realized two things: They were not alone, and other parents should know they’re not alone either.
		Robert and Janet Cooke have become advocates for parents of missing children and in September of 2002 were invited (along with Don and Claudine Ryce and others) to the White House Conference on Missing, Exploited and Runaway Children.
	www.crimeweek.com /cja/0504missing.html (1431 words)

	On the Media
		Where this is not now the rule, let this sad affair at least have the good effect of making it the rule." That editorial was published on April 17, 1981 about the presumably profession-transforming transgressions of a Washington Post reporter named Janet Cooke.
		MICHAEL GETLER: One of the things that did happen at the post is that the star system was diminished, because it did exist here, and it exists at the Times, I'm sure.
		BROOKE GLADSTONE: Maybe that'll be a lasting legacy of Jayson Blair, and maybe a reduction of the star system -- better communication among high and low-level editors -- and better checking up on facts, starting with a reporter's resume straight through to his confidential sources.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_053003_cooke_legacy.html (1201 words)

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