Getting it wrong
Subtitle: ten of the greatest misreported stories in American journalism
By: W. Joseph Campbell
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780520255661; 9780520262096
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "I'll furnish the war": the making of a media myth; title: Fright beyond measure? the myth of the war of the worlds; title: Murrow vs. McCarthy: timing makes the myth; title: The Bay of Pigs/New York Times suppression myth; title: Debunking the "Cronkite moment"; title: The nuanced myth: bra burning at Atlantic City; title: It's all about the media: Watergate's heroic-journalist myth; title: The "fantasy panic": the news media and the crack-baby myth; title: "She was fighting to the death": mythmaking in Iraq; title: Hurricane Katrina and the myth of superlative reporting; title: Conclusion.