Honesty in the Media

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This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the topic of media and honesty in the media. Specifically, the paper discusses Janet Cooke, the prize-winning journalist who fabricated a story about an inner-city young boy who was a heroin addict, and why readers should not always believe everything they read in newspapers and magazines.

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"Janet Cooke was born in 1958, and little is known about her true background or education. She claimed to have graduated from Vassar College and attended the Sorbonne in Paris, but these were both fabrications, her only degree came from the University of Toledo in Ohio. In 1980, she joined the staff of The Washington Post as a reporter for the "Weeklies" section. In September of 1980, the Post published one of her stories, "Jimmy's World." It would prove to be a monumental mistake. Cooke resigned from the Post in 1981, and married a lawyer. They lived briefly in Paris, but the marriage failed, and Cooke moved back to the US. She worked as a clerk in a department store for many years. In 1996, a script about her life was sold to Hollywood for $1.6 million, and she made an attempt to begin writing again. Currently, the film about her life is not in production (Editors)."

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