Janet Cooke's false "Jimmy's World" story was published 30 years ago this week

[Gutenberg]

"Jimmy's World," the entirely fabricated story of an eight-year-old heroin addict and pusher, still does its damage to the profession.

http://mije.org/richardprince/cookes-hoa...ears#Cooke

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And yet nowadays entire networks base the majority of their business model on made up 'news'. The golden era of 'good' journalism seems to be dead and gone.