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Getting It Wrong - Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Getting It Wrong - Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Many of American journalism's best-known and most cherished stories
are exaggerated, dubious, or apocryphal. They are media-driven
myths, and they attribute to the news media and their practitioners
far more power and influence than they truly exert. In Getting It
Wrong, writer and scholar W. Joseph Campbell confronts and
dismantles prominent media-driven myths, describing how they can
feed stereotypes, distort understanding about the news media, and
deflect blame from policymakers. Campbell debunks the notions that
the Washington Post's Watergate reporting brought down Richard M.
Nixon's corrupt presidency, that Walter Cronkite's characterization
of the Vietnam War in 1968 shifted public opinion against the
conflict, and that William Randolph Hearst vowed to "furnish the
war" against Spain in 1898. This expanded second edition includes a
new preface and new chapters about the first Kennedy-Nixon debate
in 1960, the haunting Napalm Girl photograph of the Vietnam War,
and bogus quotations driven by the Internet and social media.
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