Getting it Wrong : : ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism
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"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.
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PUBLISHED
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: xiii, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780520255661
0520255666
9780520262096
0520262093
SUBJECTS
Journalistic ethics -- History -- 20th century.
Journalism -- History -- 20th century.
Press and politics -- History -- 20th century.
Sensationalism in journalism -- History -- 20th century.
Journalism -- History -- 20th century.