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| | We forgot about Janet Cooke's Jimmy |
 | | She claimed to have graduated from Vassar College, she claimed to speak four languages, she claimed to have attended the Sorbonne in Paris; in fact, these lies-- all unchecked until after the fiasco of Jimmy-- landed her the job at the Post. |
 | | Journalism took many jabs on the chin that were wrapped in the sins of Janet Cooke, and in the media-bashing, questioning-reporter's-ethics flurry that followed, nobody bothered to ask whether, despite Jimmy's fictionality, it didn't remain true that American hell-holes devoured some anonymous 8-year-olds into addictive oblivion. |
 | | 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. |
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