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Janet Cooke

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Opinion or Fact?

Courtland Milloy was jealous of Janet Cooke's success.
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The editors of the Post valued truth more than the Pulitzer Prize.
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What does the author mean by the statement "Another plus for Cooke was her personal style"?
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The police, too, put pressure on the newspaper to reveal where Jimmy lived so they could rescue him from his PLIGHT.
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Finding the Main Idea:

Though Janet Cooke claimed to have interviewed a young addict named Jimmy at home, she couldn't locate his house later.
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Making Inferences:

Plenty of applicants for the position of journalist had credentials similar to Janet Cooke's .
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Her IMMEDIATE editor was struck by Cooke's eagerness to get ahead.
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It was a measure of how COMPELLING the story was.
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Fact or Opinion?

No one at the Post had ever checked Cooke's credentials before she won the Pulitzer Prize.
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Making Inferences:

Without a doubt, there was a person exactly like Jimmy in Washington, D.C.
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Besides the details Cooke included in her writing struck them as too AUTHENTIC to question.
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If Janet Cooke's article hadn't won the PUlitzer Prize, the deception would have never been revealed.
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Finally, Janet Cooke confessed that Jimmy was
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The author uses the first sentence of the article to
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Janet Cooke's resume claimed that she graduated from
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Privately, Post editors were pleased that the article had GENERATED so much community concern.
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Finding the Main Idea:

Janet Cooke's award-winning article about an eight-year-old drug addict was both shocking and false, and it eventually cost her her job.
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Her IMMEDIATE editor was struck by Cooke's eagerness to get ahead.
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Judging from statements in the article "Janet Cooke: Disgraced Journalist," you can conclude that the author wants the reader to think that
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It was a measure of how COMPELLING the story was.
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Privately, Post editors were pleased that the article had GENERATED so much community concern.
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Based on the information in paragraph 16, you can predict that
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Opinion or Fact?

Janet Cooke wrote 52 articles during her first eight months as a journalist at the Post.
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When Post editors found out that the article was a fraud, they
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Finding the Main Idea:

Janet Cookes' foolish actions caused embarrassment for her employer and disaster for her career.
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Fellow reporter Courtland Milloy asked Cooke to show him where Jimmy lived because he wanted to
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Besides, the details Cooke included in her writing struck them as too AUTHENTIC to question.
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The police, too, put pressure on the newspaper to reveal where Jimmy lived so they could rescue him form his PLIGHT.
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The printed word has the power to excite and interest readers.
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When they read Cooke's article about a young addict named Jimmy, readers
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