James A. Michcner, in US. News and World Report (May 4, 1981), P.O. Box 2624, Boulder, Colo. 80302.
How could her editors have printed it? How could they have pushed it for a Pulitzer Prize? How could the Pulitzer advisory board have hon- ored it? These questions have dogged journalists since April 15, 1981, when Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke resigned after admitting that she had fabricated her Pulitzer Prize-winning article on "Jimmy," an eight-year-old heroin addict. Michener,...