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Since 1992, Youth Radio has been an outlet for young people to find their own voices and tell their own stories through media. In Drop that Knowledge: Youth Radio Stories, Elisabeth Soep and Vivian Chavez explore the process of writing and producing these stories, which air on major outlets like NPR and KQED, and the [more...]  This past Saturday, W. Joseph Campbell launched his book, Getting it Wrong, with a talk and book signing at the Newseum in Washington, DC. He brings us the highlights, and audience members’ thought-provoking questions, in this cross-post from his Media Myth Alert blog. Getting It Wrong, my new book [more...] W. Joseph Campbell In this guest post, W. Joseph Campbell describes his research into the long-standing myth of bra-burning. It offers a reminder of the importance of not overlooking the local news reports. Campbell’s book, Getting it Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism, will be launched June 19 at the Newseum in [more...] W. Joseph Campbell 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 Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism, will be launched June 19 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Debunking the Bay of [more...] W. Joseph Campbell. Photo: Jeff Watts, American University 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 and persist even after being rejected by the people involved. On his blog yesterday, Campbell [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 and popular media. In a recent cross-post from his blog Media Myth Alert, Campbell addressed the appealing but misleading story that Edward R. [more...] |
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