Getting it wrong : debunking the greatest myths in American journalism / W. Joseph Campbell.

Author
Campbell, W. Joseph [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Second edition.
Published/​Created
  • Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xvii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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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.
    Notes
    Originally published: 2010.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-326) and index.
    Contents
    • "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
    • TV viewers, radio listeners, and the myth of the first Kennedy-Nixon debate
    • The Bay of Pigs-New York Times suppression myth
    • Debunking the "Cronkite moment"
    • The nuanced myth : bra burning at Atlantic City
    • Picture power? : confronting the myths of the "napalm girl" photograph
    • 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
    • Counterfeit quotations : swelling with a digital tide.
    ISBN
    • 9780520291270 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    • 0520291271 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    • 9780520291294 ((paperback : alkaline paper))
    • 0520291298 ((paperback : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2016028742
    OCLC
    952351424
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