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Getting it wrong : debunking the greatest myths in American journalism /

"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 schola...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Campbell, W. Joseph (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Edición:Second edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.