Remember The Washington Post’s ‘Jimmy’s World’ Scam?

Then in April 1981, six-and-a-half months after it first appeared on the Post’s front page, Cooke won the Pulitzer Prize for her story. Almost immediately, the Pulitzer committee discovered Cooke’s academic credentials were not what she claimed, and Washington Post editors grilled her about the story. Within two days, the award was withdrawn and Cooke finally admitted to her editors that “Jimmy’s World” was a fiction.

Today:

History repeats.