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OverviewMany 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: W. Joseph CampbellPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Edition: 2nd edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9780520291270ISBN 10: 0520291271 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 18 October 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. I'll Furnish the War : The Making of a Media Myth 2. Fright beyond Measure? The Myth of The War of the Worlds 3. Murrow vs. McCarthy: Timing Makes the Myth 4. TV Viewers, Radio Listeners, and the Myth of the First Kennedy-Nixon Debate 5. The Bay of Pigs-New York Times Suppression Myth 6. Debunking the Cronkite Moment 7. The Nuanced Myth: Bra Burning at Atlantic City 8. Picture Power? Confronting the Myths of the Napalm Girl Photograph 9. It's All about the Media: Watergate's Heroic-Journalist Myth 10. The Fantasy Panic : The News Media and the Crack-Baby Myth 11. She Was Fighting to the Death : Mythmaking in Iraq 12. Hurricane Katrina and the Myth of Superlative Reporting 13. Counterfeit Quotations: Swelling with a Digital Tide Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationW. Joseph Campbell, a former newspaper and wire service journalist, is Professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, DC. He is the author of five other books, including 1995: The Year the Future Began and Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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