So you know that article I posted about Jimmy? Awful, isn't it? Well it's also fake. I don't mean fake like I took the story from a fiction novel - it was published on the front page of the Washington post in 1980. The reporter who published it, Janet Cooke, even won a Pulitzer Prize for it. But there was no Jimmy. He didn't exist. Janet made him up and wrote his story from her head, not from real life.
You mad? So was I when I found out the story wasn't real. Granted, there may have been an 8 year old heroin addict somewhere out there when this story was written, but that's not the point. She lied. There's a reason that journalism isn't exactly the most trusted industry and it's because of the Janet Cooke's out there. It just makes me mad.
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