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_William Morrish - Perhaps the most infamous modern instance of a newspaper brokering in fiction was 1980’s Pulitzer-winning feature inside the Washington Post about a drug addicted boy named Jimmy. “Jimmy is 8 yrs . old along with a third-generation heroin addict, a precocious young boy with sandy hair, velvety brown eyes and needle marks freckling the baby-smooth skin of his thin brown arms.” Riveting writing, but fiction not fact. Little Jimmy was a character concocted by journalist Janet Cooke. After the hoax was discovered, Cooke’s Pulitzer went pffffft and she or he quit. Apologizing because of this grave journalism transgression , a contrite Ben Bradlee, then your Post’s executive editor, cited credibility like a newspaper’s paramount virtue. At least a paper lost its integrity, the resulting wounds, said Bradlee, were “grievous.”
William Morrish_
Along with mangling the facts and making stuff up, newspapers can suffer wrenching dyslexia when reading the tea leaves of current events. A brand new York Times art critic, reviewing Henri Matisse on the fabled The big apple Armory Show of 1913, excoriated his work with reducing psychology “to a purely animal significance” and “turning humanity back toward its brutish beginnings.” The usually puissant Walter Lippmann judged Franklin Roosevelt “a kind of amiable boyscout,” who didn't have grasp of “the great subjects which must concern the subsequent President.” As well as the Chicago Daily Tribune, announcing the winner of the 1948 Presidential election, shouted this exquisitely wrong-headed headline high above the fold on page one: “Dewey Defeats Truman.”
William Morrish_
Along with mangling the facts and making stuff up, newspapers can suffer wrenching dyslexia when reading the tea leaves of current events. A brand new York Times art critic, reviewing Henri Matisse on the fabled The big apple Armory Show of 1913, excoriated his work with reducing psychology “to a purely animal significance” and “turning humanity back toward its brutish beginnings.” The usually puissant Walter Lippmann judged Franklin Roosevelt “a kind of amiable boyscout,” who didn't have grasp of “the great subjects which must concern the subsequent President.” As well as the Chicago Daily Tribune, announcing the winner of the 1948 Presidential election, shouted this exquisitely wrong-headed headline high above the fold on page one: “Dewey Defeats Truman.”