but the janet cooke story, i don't know how many you are familiar with it, but just to give you a bit of background, 1980, a woman named janet cooke came in choosing john black women in a putter on the 14th and u. poverty and drugs that she had heard a rumor through her editor and some others that there is a new kind of hearing those closer to the skin of its users. your editor can implement sender have to find it. and she heard while she was out doing reporting, tantalizing to drug treatment center that says there is a robotic did it come from treatment. she brought the specter of editors. if you can get back, that's a front-page story. so in that moment she decided and a boy to match the description. ultimately she decided to write a piece that is very committed very vivid and full of impressionistic detail, that somebody didn't cry right away. but i survived the editorial process on this published in september 1980 in front page jimmy's world. she claimed behind the scenes the boy's name is tyrone and credo identity for hemp is actually not true. but he ran on the front page and im

just to give you a little background, in 1980 a woman named janet cooke came to the post. they put her on the poverty and drugs beat. she had heard a rumor through her editor and others that there was a new kind of heroine. her editor sent her to find it and she heard while he was -- she was doing reporting, a tantalizing bit of information from a drug treatment center that there was an 8-year-old addict and she brought this to her editors who said that as a front-page story. and so in that moment janet decides to get it and she went out and couldn't find the boy who matched the description and ultimately she decided to make it up and so she wrote a piece that is very vivid and full of impressions and detail that some people didn't die right away but it survived the editorial process and was published in september of 1980 on the front page on the left side. the little boy was named jimmy. she claimed behind-the-scenes that he was tyrone and a whole identity that was not true. it ran on the front page and he immediately government said we are looking for this kid. the mayor

and so janet cook was a 26-year-old reporter who came to the paper.lf and she fabricated herself about an 8-year-old heroin addict. in april of the following year, she won the -- and in the process of checking her bio, the associated press where she worked before discovered some d discrepancies. that was really ben's low moment and i think what he did in response tells you a lot about ben. it became something he is proud of. in the wake of the scandal, he and don graham, the only publisher at the typer that time. and so the paper at the time spent four days, interviewed everybody, complete access. basically, no fact in that report had been successfully challenged. it is the definitive account. that actually saved the post and truly saved -- and what he will say to you is that he could learn a lesson of watergate and yes, the mistake was a mistake and he will always admit it was a mistake, but in the wake of it, it's the cover up. he threw his arms open and i think it saved him. i go into that episode a great deal in the book because it tells you as mu