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List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1 "I'll Furnish the War": The Making of a Media Myth 9
2 Fright beyond Measure? The Myth of The War of the Worlds 26
3 Murrow vs. McCarthy: Timing Makes the Myth 45
4 The Bay of Pigs-New York Times Suppression Myth 68
5 Debunking the "Cronkite Moment" 85
6 The Nuanced Myth: Bra Burning at Atlantic City 101
7 It's All about the Media: Watergate's Heroic-Journalist Myth 115
8 The "Fantasy Panic": The News Media and the Crack-Baby Myth 130
9 "She Was Fighting to the Death": Mythmaking in Iraq 144
10 Hurricane Katrina and the Myth of Superlative Reporting 163
Conclusion 185
Notes 193
Select Bibliography 249
Index 257
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Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism, Did the Washington Post bring down Richard Nixon by reporting on the Watergate scandal? Did a cryptic remark by Walter Cronkite effectively end the Vietnam War? Did William Randolph Hearst vow to furnish the war in the 1898 conflict with Spain?
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Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism, Did the Washington Post bring down Richard Nixon by reporting on the Watergate scandal? Did a cryptic remark by Walter Cronkite effectively end the Vietnam War? Did William Randolph Hearst vow to furnish the war in the 1898 conflict with Spain?
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