We are pleased to announce that W. Joseph Campbell has received the Sigma Delta Chi Award in Research from the Society of Professional Journalists for Getting it Wrong: Ten of the Greatest …
Read More >In his latest blog post, W. Joseph Campbell undertakes the Sisyphean task of discrediting yet another media myth: the notion that the Washington Post was vital to the outcome of Watergate. This widely …
Read More >W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting It Wrong, responds to a review by Dr. Jeannette McVicker in his latest blog post. JHistory, the listserv devoted to issues in journalism history, posted an …
Read More >In his latest blog post, W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting It Wrong, discusses a media myth “too well-known, too entrenched in the American consciousness, ever to fall into disuse.” How could …
Read More >Media-driven myths are misleading and persistent, and can have damaging consequences, as W. Joseph Campbell writes in Getting it Wrong. Some have been around for more than 100 years, and more continue …
Read More >In this guest post, W. Joseph Campbell challenges a longstanding myth surrounding the New York Times and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Campbell’s book, Getting it Wrong: Ten of the …
Read More >In this guest post, W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting it Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism, shows how media-driven myths can take on lives of their own …
Read More >In this book trailer, media-mythbuster W. Joseph Campbell gives a preview of his new book Getting it Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism. From William Randolph Hearst’s supposed …
Read More >On his blog Media Myth Alert yesterday, W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting it Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism, examined the origins of the media myth of …
Read More >What are media-driven myths? W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting it Wrong, calls them the “junk food of journalism”—tempting but dubious tidbits that distort the facts and perpetuate erroneous information through news …
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