Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jimmy's house in southeast Washington, Cooke admitted that the boy did not exist and that she had invented most of the story. Cooke resigned and went into seclusion. The Post promptly returned the award and apologized in an editorial: "This newspaper . . . was itself the victim of a hoax-which we then passed along in a prominent page-one story . . . How could this have happened...
...Cooke hoax unfortunately lent credence to the old adage that you cannot believe everything you read in the papers. Says Michael Gartner, editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune: "When you damage the credibility of the Post you damage the credibility of the Des Moines Register and every other paper in the country." Shaken, many papers began re-examining their own policies on sources. "We are working at putting something in writing," says Boston Globe Editor Thomas Winship. Nowhere was the process so intense as it was at the Washington Post. Bradlee reminded the staff last week: "The credibility...
...Altered States does fail--completely. This quick tour of the latest in cocktail party theorizing, spoken entirely in psychobabble (subtitles not provided), matches two of the film industry's most hyperthyroid artists, director Ken Russell and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky; their collaboration produces a hysterically pretentious and ludicrously contrived hoax which is apparently cleaning up in its opening run in New York. Vel, vat haf ve heere? (In fairness, the Viennese psychiatrist is probably the only cliche this film avoids...
Their hope now is the Khmer Serie--a nominal military force which is viewed here as "an alternate force for liberation." Eberstadt sees them as just a big "hoax...
...Editor R. Emmett Tyr rell Jr., 36, sent Bill Buckley, whom he had never met, a check for $264,000 to pay off National Review's debt. Tyrrell, then 22, was an Indiana University graduate" stu dent with some $27 in the bank. Knowing a well-intentioned hoax when he saw one, an amused Buckley called him up and soon encouraged Tyrrell to convert his small, off-campus conservative newspaper into a witty, sprightly national monthly. The latest issue features Christmas book recommendations from former President Richard Nixon...