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ten of the greatest misreported stories in American journalism

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An edition of Getting it wrong (2010)

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ten of the greatest misreported stories in American journalism

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Cover of: Getting It Wrong
Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism
2016, University of California Press
in English
Cover of: Getting It Wrong
Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism
2016, University of California Press
in English
Cover of: Getting It Wrong
Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism
2016, University of California Press
in English
Cover of: Getting It Wrong
Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism
2010, University of California Press
in English
Cover of: Getting It Wrong
Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism
2010, University of California Press
in English
Cover of: Getting it wrong
Getting it wrong: ten of the greatest misreported stories in American journalism
2010, University of California Press
in English

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Table of 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
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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
071/.30904
Library of Congress
PN4756 .C36 2010, PN4756.C36 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
269

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Open Library
OL23954197M
Internet Archive
gettingitwrongte0000camp
ISBN 13
9780520255661, 9780520262096
LCCN
2009047705
OCLC/WorldCat
449860525

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