Word: janet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Into this welcoming atmosphere 1½ years ago came Janet Cooke, black, attractive, ambitious and 25. Her academic credentials were impressive, though false; she dressed well and lived well (though later there was talk of checks bouncing). She also wrote well and got frequent bylines, culminating in her sensational dope addict story last September, "Jimmy's World...
...deserved it,' Cooke answered. 'Yes, you did,' Woodward said." She wrote out her resignation and disappeared from the Post's payroll but not from its history. In Green's judgment, "the Post accelerated her success, and may have thereby hastened her failure." If Janet Cooke, talented writer, skillful hoaxer, has any writing future at 26, it should be in fiction, not journalism...
...gossiping of the Enquirer-beyond its First Amendment "right" to print it. Even though gossip and personality stories have become a major journalistic trend, the Enquirer does it to excess. The press has other, permanently hostile critics always ready to decry bias in even the most honest reporting. The Janet Cooke case gave Richard Nixon the chance to cry "irresponsible" at the Post, and to add piously: "I hope they do better in the future." Journalists often lament that the public fails to appreciate their role in protecting the public weal...
Straights for gays collected all the signatures on the petition in the College dining halls during a 32-hour period beginning Monday at lunch and ending Tuesday at dinner. Janet M. Helson '83, a member of the group, said yesterday...
...every young reporter's dream come true: a gripping Page One story in the Washington Post, a public outcry, an investigation by the city and, finally, the Pulitzer Prize. For a glorious Monday last week, Janet Cooke, 26, hit the jackpot. Her sensational account of "Jimmy," an eight-year-old heroin addict, had won the Pulitzer for feature writing, and she seemed destined for stardom at one of the nation's most respected newspapers...