W. Joseph Campbell wrote an interesting and important book:
Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism. Said book demolishes many of the media stories that we all take for granted. For example, there was no widespread panic when Orson Welles broadcast
War of the Worlds in 1938. Nor did Woodward and Bernstein "bring down Nixon" with their "Watergate" reporting.
A truth-seekers work is never done. Campbell has a website which catches journalists repeating these "media myths" and corrects the record.
It's kind of disheartening to see the same errors repeated over and over again. But, at least some one is trying to get the truth out.
Media Myth Alert
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