Getting It Wrong Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism

Name: Getting It Wrong Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism
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ISBN: 9780520262096

ISBN-10: 0520262093

ISBN-13: 9780520262096

Edition: 2010

Authors: W. Joseph Campbell

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



"I'll Furnish the War": The Making of a Media Myth



Fright beyond Measure? The Myth of The War of the Worlds



Murrow vs. McCarthy: Timing Makes the Myth



The Bay of Pigs-New York Times Suppression Myth



Debunking the "Cronkite Moment"



The Nuanced Myth: Bra Burning at Atlantic City



It's All about the Media: Watergate's Heroic-Journalist Myth



The "Fantasy Panic": The News Media and the Crack-Baby Myth



"She Was Fighting to the Death": Mythmaking in Iraq



Hurricane Katrina and the Myth of Superlative Reporting


Conclusion


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index