Media myths are not only persistent, but can spawn myths of their own, as W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting it Wrong, shows in this guest post, using the Watergate “heroic-journalist myth” …
Read 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’ …
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 >Why do media-driven myths matter, and why is it important to set the record straight? In this guest post, W. Joseph Campbell explains. In the next weeks we’ll have several guest posts …
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 >In this cross-post from his Media Myth Alert blog, W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting it Wrong, addresses how the media fueled fears of a “crack baby generation”, and the damaging consequences …
Read More >Media-driven myths aren’t harmless, says W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting it Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism. Instead, he says, they glorify the news media and can …
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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