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Media myths: FAQs, Part One

In Media myths on November 2, 2009 at 5:17 pm

Q: So what are media-driven myths?

A: They are well-known stories about and/or by the news media that are widely believed and often retold but which, on close inspection, prove to be apocryphal or wildly exaggerated. Media-driven myths are dubious tales that often promote misleading interpretations of media power and influence. They can be thought of as the “junk food of journalism.” Or as prominent cases of “fake news” that have masqueraded as factual, in some cases for decades.

Q: Give me an example of a media-driven myth.

A: There are many of them. Certainly well-known is the tale that two young, intrepid reporters for the Washington Post brought down the corrupt presidency of Richard Nixon. It’s an appealing story, evoking David vs. Goliath and all. But it’s a media myth. Nixon’s fall was the consequence of his criminal conduct, which was exposed in the convergence of many forces—newspapers being among the least decisive. Journalism’s contribution to Nixon’s fall was modest at best. But it’s far easier to focus on the exploits of the two heroic journalists than it is to grapple with the intricacies and baffling complexities of the Watergate scandal.

A similar dynamic helped propel the media myth of Edward R. Murrow’s television program in 1954, which supposedly unmasked Senator Joseph McCarthy and ended his virulent, communists-in-government witch-hunt. Many factors combined to bring about McCarthy’s downfall, not the least of which were his own excesses and miscalculations. But the notion that Murrow was the giant killer is very appealing, often taught, and easy to remember.

Q: And where do media-driven myths come from?

A: They arise from many sources—including the tendency to believe the news media are very powerful and sometimes even dangerous forces in society. Media myths also are appealing because they offer simplistic answers to complex issues.  Stories that are too good—too delicious—to be checked out also can become media myths. Those three factors—media power, simple answers to complex questions, and a sense of being too good not to be true—help explain the emergence and tenacity of one of the most famous media myths—the purported vow of William Randolph Hearst to “furnish the war” with Spain. That anecdote is rich, telling, and delicious—and fits well with the image of Hearst as war-monger. But it’s almost certainly apocryphal.

Sloppy reporting, and anecdote-driven reporting, can give rise to media myths, too. We see that in the myth of “crack babies” of the late 1980s and 1990s— that children born to women who took cocaine during pregnancy were fated to become what journalists called a “bio underclass.” Doing crack while pregnant is lunacy. But the much-feared social catastrophe, the “bio underclass,”  never materialized.

High-quality cinematic treatments can be powerful agents of media myth-making, too. Millions of Americans born after 1954 were introduced to the famous Murrow-McCarthy confrontation through Good Night, and Good Luck, a critically acclaimed motion picture released in 2005. Good Night, and Good Luck cleverly promoted the view that Murrow stood up to McCarthy when no one else would or could.

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  106. […] legendary “Cronkite Moment,” one of American journalism’s hardiest and best-known media-driven myths. Cronkite in Vietnam, […]

    ‘Cronkite Moment’ makes ‘Best of the Web’ « Media Myth Alert 11 September 2010 at 8am

  107. […] the “going newsless” phenomenon in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, which debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths–dubious tales about the news media that masquerade as […]

    Going newsless, and its implications « Media Myth Alert 13 September 2010 at 7am

  108. […] Moment” also is a chapter in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, which debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths–those dubious and improbable tales about the news media that masquerade as […]

    New book on Tet invokes mythical ‘Cronkite Moment’ « Media Myth Alert 15 September 2010 at 7am

  109. […] Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate just days away, it’s a fair bet that a particularly hardy media myth will make frequent appearances in news reports recalling the 1960 […]

    Kennedy-Nixon debate myth certain to circulate anew « Media Myth Alert 20 September 2010 at 7am

  110. […] report on McCarthy on March 9, 1954–the 30-minute program that lies at the heart of the myth–did not have the outcome so often claimed for […]

    Edward R. Murrow ‘had guts’ in taking on Joe McCarthy? Not really « Media Myth Alert 22 September 2010 at 4pm

  111. […] all, few media-driven myths are invoked as routinely or as matter-of-factly as the legendary occasion when CBS anchorman Walter […]

    Encore: Sighting the mythical ‘Cronkite Moment’ « Media Myth Alert 23 September 2010 at 5am

  112. […] of the historic Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate has sparked references to the hardy and enticing media myth of TV viewer-radio listener […]

    Kennedy-Nixon debate myth emerges–as predicted « Media Myth Alert 24 September 2010 at 6am

  113. […] anyway, is the widely told media myth that has come to define the first presidential […]

    Who won ’60 debate? Can’t say: Didn’t see it on TV « Media Myth Alert 26 September 2010 at 8am

  114. […] is just too good, too delicious to check out–a factor that often characterizes the telling of media-driven myths. It’s a point I make in Getting it Wrong, my new book that debunks 10 prominent media myths. […]

    Indulging in myth on debate’s 50th anniversary « Media Myth Alert 27 September 2010 at 9am

  115. […] however, is a media-driven myth–a dubious tale about the news media that masquerades as […]

    How late was Ed Murrow in taking on Joe McCarthy? « Media Myth Alert 28 September 2010 at 4pm

  116. […] I discuss in Getting It Wrong, my new book that debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths, Woodward and his Post colleague Carl Bernstein, “did not uncover defining and decisive […]

    Pew: Woodward, Bernstein ‘unraveled Watergate cover-up’ « Media Myth Alert 1 October 2010 at 8am

  117. […] Post on October 6, 2010 at 10:51 am The Los Angeles Times indulged the other day in the tenacious media myth about the Pentagon’s concocting the hero-warrior tale about Jessica Lynch early in the Iraq […]

    Pentagon ‘caught creating false narrative’ about Lynch? How so? « Media Myth Alert 6 October 2010 at 10am

  118. […] revisited the tale in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, which debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths–dubious and improbable stories about the news media that masquerade as […]

    Doing more than casting ‘doubt’ on Hearst’s famous vow « Media Myth Alert 9 October 2010 at 10am

  119. […] My new book, Getting It Wrong, which debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths, those dubious and improbable tales about the news media that masquerade as […]

    ‘Getting It Wrong’ goes on ‘PJM Political’ « Media Myth Alert 10 October 2010 at 10am

  120. […] an easy meme: Juicy, delicious, easy to remember. It’s also a classic media-driven myth, a tall tale about the news media that dissolves under […]

    Hearst, agenda-setting, and war « Media Myth Alert 12 October 2010 at 9am

  121. […] dominant narrative about the Lynch case–one of 10  media-driven myths I examine in my new book, Getting It Wrong–has shifted decidedly away from the Post to focus […]

    Ignoring WaPo role in pushing Lynch hero-warrior tale « Media Myth Alert 13 October 2010 at 8am

  123. […] factors certainly do characterize media-driven myths, which are prominent stories about and/or by the news media that are widely believed and often […]

    Sniffing out media myths « Media Myth Alert 17 October 2010 at 8am

  124. […] also a classic media-driven myth, one that ignores the failure of diplomacy that led to the Spanish-American War and offers a […]

    Hearst pushed country into war? But how? « Media Myth Alert 18 October 2010 at 7am

  125. […] I point out in Getting It Wrong, which debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths, one of the reporters who wrote the “fighting to the death” story “made clear in […]

    WaPo’s belated and puzzling Lynch correction « Media Myth Alert 20 October 2010 at 7am

  126. […] Getting It Wrong, my new mythbusting book, I point out that the most resilient media-driven myths often are those that are distilled “to a catchy, pithy […]

    IBD invokes Hearst myth of ‘furnish the war’ « Media Myth Alert 21 October 2010 at 5pm

  127. […] I discuss in Getting It Wrong, my new book that debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths, legend has it that Murrow “single-handedly confronted and took down the most feared and […]

    If not for Edward R. Murrow « Media Myth Alert 22 October 2010 at 10am

  128. […] This thin slice of Watergate arcana certainly is intriguing. And it testifies to how movies can propel media-driven myths. […]

    Didn’t: A Watergate primer « Media Myth Alert 23 October 2010 at 5pm

  129. […] Q-and-A with Big Think blog was posted today. In it I discuss Halloween’s greatest media myth–Orson Welles’ famous War of the Worlds dramatization, which aired on CBS radio 72 years […]

    Halloween’s greatest media myth « Media Myth Alert 26 October 2010 at 4pm

  130. […] Library is a special place, and more than 120 people were there as I reviewed three of the 10 media-driven myths that are addressed and debunked in my latest book, Getting It […]

    ‘Getting It Wrong’ at a special place « Media Myth Alert 28 October 2010 at 5pm

  131. […] I discuss in Getting It Wrong–which debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths–the notion of bra-burning stems from the women’s liberation protest at Atlantic City on […]

    Turbulent times and the myth of ‘bra burning’ « Media Myth Alert 1 November 2010 at 11am

  132. […] point: The tale is believed–and is often retold–because it is believable. Like other media-driven myths, the “Cronkite Moment” resides on the cusp of […]

    Mythical ‘Cronkite Moment’ is ‘believed because it’s believable’ « Media Myth Alert 2 November 2010 at 5pm

  133. […] enduring myth about Hearst and the war was invoked yesterday, in a post at the Atlantic online site. The […]

    Hearst ‘pushed us into war’? How’d he do that? « Media Myth Alert 3 November 2010 at 2pm

  134. […] Or something to that effect. As I point out in Getting It Wrong, versions vary markedly as to what the president supposedly said. And acute version variability can be a marker of a media-driven myth. […]

    ‘If I’ve lost Cronkite’–ever-hardy, and illusory « Media Myth Alert 4 November 2010 at 5pm

  135. […] from the audience was what message should students take away from a book that identifies as media-driven myths some of the best-known stories in American journalism. The implication was that mythbusting may […]

    SRO for ‘Getting It Wrong’ talk at UMd « Media Myth Alert 5 November 2010 at 11am

  136. […] As I discuss in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, the Cronkite program on Vietnam quite simply did not have the powerful effects so often attributed to it. The “Cronkite Moment” is one hardy media-driven myth. […]

    LBJ ‘changed Vietnam policy based on Cronkite’s views’? Hardly « Media Myth Alert 7 November 2010 at 10am

  137. […] point out that media myths take hold for a variety of reasons: Because they delicious stories that are almost too good not to […]

    ‘Getting It Wrong’ among 90 titles at NPC Book Fair « Media Myth Alert 8 November 2010 at 11am

  138. […] stories, I replied. But more often the reaction has been one of some surprise that these tales were myths. Others have said they had rather suspected these tales were too good to be true, I […]

    Sales of ‘Getting It Wrong’ brisk at NPC’s Book Fair « Media Myth Alert 10 November 2010 at 5pm

  139. […] talk centered on three of the 10 prominent media-driven myths debunked in  my latest book, Getting It […]

    Inaugurating the Parker-Qualls lecture « Media Myth Alert 11 November 2010 at 10pm

  141. […] lengthy interview about Getting It Wrong, I discuss why it’s vital to debunk media-driven myths, those dubious tales about the news media that masquerade as […]

    Media myths send ‘misleading’ message of media power « Media Myth Alert 13 November 2010 at 9am

  142. […] Two days later, th&#1077 Post published its sensational tab &#959f Lynch’s supposed heroism, an tab “unlike any to emerge from th&#1077 war,” I write &#1110n Getting it Incorrect, m&#1091 new book debunking 10 prominent media-obsessed myths. […]

    Washington Post ignores its singular role in Lynch hero-warrior story « Media Myth Alert | After Today News 13 November 2010 at 11am

  143. […] Looking forward, do new media present an opportunity to debunk these myths, before they get […]

    Cinematic treatments can solidify media myths « Media Myth Alert 14 November 2010 at 7am

  144. […] In both cases, Olbermann bought into tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    Media history with Olbermann: Wrong and wrong « Media Myth Alert 17 November 2010 at 7am

  145. […] A fine crowd was on hand last night for my book talk at the Smithsonian’s Ripley Center about media-driven myths. […]

    Mythbusting at the Smithsonian « Media Myth Alert 19 November 2010 at 7pm

  146. […] it is with the mythical “Cronkite Moment,” one of the most tenacious myths of American […]

    Newsman tells ‘a simple truth,’ changes history « Media Myth Alert 21 November 2010 at 2pm

  147. […] Moment” in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, which addresses and debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths. I point out that Johnson didn’t even see the Cronkite program when it aired on CBS on […]

    ‘Mired in stalemate’? How unoriginal of Cronkite « Media Myth Alert 22 November 2010 at 12pm

  148. […] can be a hazard of media-driven myths, and there’s also no denying that stereotype is embedded in the […]

    Palin’s new book invokes ‘bra-burning’ stereotype « Media Myth Alert 24 November 2010 at 8am

  149. […] myths, to be sure, are quite unlike media-driven myths, the subject of my latest book, Getting It Wrong. Media-driven myths are false, dubious, improbable […]

    Thanksgiving and its permissible myths « Media Myth Alert 25 November 2010 at 7am

  150. […] fallacy also is addressed in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, which debunks 10 prominent myths about the news media. Among them is the heroic-journalist myth of Watergate–the notion that […]

    He may be arrogant, but he’s right about presentism « Media Myth Alert 29 November 2010 at 6am

  151. […] a way, “follow the money” is like media-driven myths that have gained popularity abroad–among them, the mythical Cronkite Moment, the […]

    That made-up Watergate line resonates abroad « Media Myth Alert 30 November 2010 at 9am

  152. […] That’s akin to the point I make in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, about how cinema can propel and solidify media-driven myths. […]

    Woah, WaPo: Mythmaking in the movies « Media Myth Alert 8 December 2010 at 3pm

  153. […] recount this episode in my latest book, Getting It Wrong–in the chapter puncturing the myth about CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow and his half-hour television report on McCarthy in March 1954. […]

    60 years on: Joe McCarthy assaults Drew Pearson « Media Myth Alert 9 December 2010 at 12am

  154. […] write “bring down a government that has it coming” — that’s to indulge in a media-driven myth, the beguiling heroic-journalist myth of […]

    ‘You might bring down a government’: Sure, that happens « Media Myth Alert 11 December 2010 at 7am

  155. […] “Media myths … tend to minimize or negate complexity in historical events and offer simplistic and misleading interpretations instead. Edward Murrow no more took down Joseph McCarthy than Walter Cronkite swayed a president’s views about the war in Vietnam. Yet those and other media myths endure, because in part they are reductive: They offer unambiguous, easily remembered explanations about complex historic events.” […]

    ‘Follow the tenspot’ « Media Myth Alert 12 December 2010 at 10am

  156. […] After all, the original “Cronkite Moment” of 1968 was a media-driven myth. […]

    ‘Spiegel’ thumbsucker invokes Watergate myth « Media Myth Alert 14 December 2010 at 10am

  157. […] vow, as I write in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, is almost certainly apocryphal. But like many media-driven myths, it lives on as an anecdote too delicious not to be […]

    As inevitable as ‘Yes, Virginia,’ at the holidays « Media Myth Alert 15 December 2010 at 9am

  158. […] heroic-journalist interpretation of Watergate is one of those hardy media-driven myths to have produced its own spinoff or subsidiary […]

    Watergate and its hardy myths « Media Myth Alert 16 December 2010 at 1pm

  159. […] movie, I write, helped ensure the heroic-journalist myth “would live on by offering a neat, tidy, and vastly simplified account the Watergate scandal, […]

    Mythmaking on Blu-ray? « Media Myth Alert 20 December 2010 at 11am

  160. […] media myth has it that President Lyndon Johnson watched the Cronkite report and, upon hearing the […]

    Knocking down the ‘Cronkite Moment’ « Media Myth Alert 22 December 2010 at 9am

  161. […] Today’s New York Times offers up a double-myth story, a rare article that incorporates two prominent media-driven myths. […]

    Two myths and today’s New York Times « Media Myth Alert 27 December 2010 at 1am

  162. […] The New York Times certainly was casual and superficial in likening TV comedian Jon Stewart to Edward R. Murrow. Not only that, but the discussion about the absurd comparison has been accompanied by the appearance of media-driven myth. […]

    Only Murrow had the bona fides? Nonsense « Media Myth Alert 30 December 2010 at 11am

  163. […] In the run-up to the anniversary in April of the Bay of Pigs invasion, we’ll no doubt see frequent references to this media-driven myth. […]

    Anniversary journalism and media-driven myths in 2011 « Media Myth Alert 1 January 2011 at 8am

  164. […] It’s too bad Gazeta didn’t point out that both cases are media-driven myths. […]

    Murrow, Cronkite myths cited in Poland’s top paper « Media Myth Alert 4 January 2011 at 10am

  165. […] not at all,” in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, which addresses and debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths–among them the heroic-journalist interpretation of […]

    The ‘defining moment’ in investigative journalism? Wasn’t Watergate « Media Myth Alert 8 January 2011 at 9am

  166. […] The uncertainty as to exactly when the purported exchange occurred is one of many signals the tale is apocryphal, a media-driven myth. […]

    The ‘anniversary’ of a media myth: ‘I’ll furnish the war’ « Media Myth Alert 13 January 2011 at 7am

  167. […] media-driven myths are more enticing, delicious, or retold as often as the so-called “Cronkite Moment,” […]

    Cronkite’s view on Vietnam ‘changed course of history’ But how? « Media Myth Alert 17 January 2011 at 7am

  168. […] out the new trailer for my latest book, Getting It Wrong, which addresses and debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths–those dubious stories about the news media that masquerade as […]

    Have a look: New trailer for ‘Getting It Wrong’ « Media Myth Alert 18 January 2011 at 7am

  169. […] claim caught my eye, given that my latest book, Getting It Wrong, addresses and debunks the media myth that broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow put an end to McCarthy’s communists-in-government […]

    On ‘transformational moments’ that journalists see « Media Myth Alert 20 January 2011 at 9am

  170. […] Atlantic City protest was the genesis of the media-driven myth of flamboyant bra-burning, […]

    ‘Doctrinaire feminist in the bra-burning mold’? « Media Myth Alert 21 January 2011 at 10am

  171. […] a newspaper’s credibility, too. As I note in Getting It Wrong, my book debunking prominent media-driven myths, “a central objective of newsgathering” is “that of seeking to get it […]

    NYTimes flubs the correction « Media Myth Alert 23 January 2011 at 11am

  172. […] also a prominent media-driven myth–a well-known but dubious or improbable tale about the news media that masquerades as […]

    Who, or what, brought down Nixon? « Media Myth Alert 24 January 2011 at 10am

  173. […] address and debunk 10 prominent media-driven myths in my latest book, Getting It […]

    On the contributions of media rabble-rousers « Media Myth Alert 26 January 2011 at 6am

  174. […] Indeed, demonstrative bra-burning was not an element of feminist protests of the 1960s and 1970s; that it was is a hardy media-driven myth. […]

    ‘Burn our briefs’ call in UK evokes myth of ‘bra burning’ « Media Myth Alert 27 January 2011 at 7pm

  175. […] Sunday, Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, rubs shoulders with a tenacious media myth linked to the newspaper’s reporting in the run-up to the Bay of Pigs invasion nearly 50 years […]

    Fact-checking Keller on NYT-Bay of Pigs suppression myth « Media Myth Alert 28 January 2011 at 11am

  176. […] no media myth: Pepco personnel can be downright rude to their […]

    Pepco the rude « Media Myth Alert 2 February 2011 at 10am

  177. […] As I discuss in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, the anecdote about Hearst’s vow is almost certainly apocryphal — a media-driven myth. […]

    Media myth and Truthout « Media Myth Alert 3 February 2011 at 6am

  178. […] was published in summer 2010 by University of California Press, addresses and debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths — those dubious tales about and/or by the news media that masquerade as […]

    JHistory: ‘Getting It Wrong’ deserves to be ‘required reading’ « Media Myth Alert 7 February 2011 at 9am

  179. […] many media myths, “follow the money” is pithy, accessible, and […]

    ‘Follow the money’: Why the made-up Watergate line endures « Media Myth Alert 8 February 2011 at 10am

  180. […] my latest book, Getting It Wrong, the cinema can be a powerful agent in propelling and solidifying media-driven myths. Indeed, All the President’s Men, in its mediacentric focus on the supposed exploits of […]

    ‘Follow the money’ and the ‘new blue bloods’ in Parliament « Media Myth Alert 12 February 2011 at 10am

  181. […] taken lightly, dismissed or ignored,” I write in Getting It Wrong, which debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths — those dubious stories about the news media that masquerade as […]

    Is this bra-burning photo authentic? « Media Myth Alert 15 February 2011 at 8am

  182. […] Moreover, the quotation seems too neat and tidy to be authentic — which can be a marker of a media-driven myth. […]

    Suspect Murrow quote pulled at Murrow school « Media Myth Alert 17 February 2011 at 7am

  183. […] serves “to abridge and misunderstand the scandal and to indulge in a particularly beguiling media-driven myth. The heroic-journalist interpretation minimizes the far more decisive forces that unraveled the […]

    A history lesson not to miss? No, but it is entertaining « Media Myth Alert 18 February 2011 at 9am

  184. […] Trerise, though, assured me the photograph was legitimate. And her confirmation effectively represents a challenge to claims that feminist bra-burning is a media myth. […]

    Bra-burning in Toronto: Confirmed « Media Myth Alert 19 February 2011 at 12am

  185. […] presidency. And Safire used an “On Language” column in 1984 to challenge another hardy media myth — that Nixon ran for president in 1968 claiming to have a “secret plan” to end […]

    Hat-tipping ‘On Language’ « Media Myth Alert 26 February 2011 at 7am

  186. […] (I had had my suspicions given that it looked almost too good to be true — which can be a marker of an unethically edited photograph and a media-driven myth.) […]

    Enticing the media: More on bra-burning in Toronto, 1979 « Media Myth Alert 4 March 2011 at 7am

  187. […] It’s a not-infrequent claim, that feminist bra-burning was a media invention, a media myth. […]

    Bra-burning ‘never happened’? « Media Myth Alert 8 March 2011 at 8am

  189. […] not that Woodward has been making such mythical claims. Rather, they pop up in fawning news reports about his […]

    Pumping up Watergate’s heroic-journalist myth « Media Myth Alert 10 March 2011 at 8am

  190. […] I note in Getting It Wrong that “to explain Watergate through the lens of the heroic-journalist is to abridge and misunderstand the scandal and to indulge in a particularly beguiling media-driven myth. […]

    Mythmaking in Moscow: Biden says WaPo brought down Nixon « Media Myth Alert 12 March 2011 at 7am

  191. […] also note in Getting It Wrong that “media-driven myths are neither trivial nor innocuous. They can and do have adverse […]

    Of media myths and false lessons abroad: Biden’s Moscow gaffe « Media Myth Alert 14 March 2011 at 7am

  192. […] is the case with all media-driven myths, there are elements of accuracy in that narrative. Woodward did periodically discuss Watergate with […]

    Counterpunching that made-up line, ‘follow the money’ « Media Myth Alert 15 March 2011 at 9am

  193. […] I note in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, which includes a chapter about the media myths of Watergate, Post reporter Bob Woodward was quoted as saying in 1973 that those crucial aspects of […]

    WaPo ‘broke the Watergate scandal’? No way « Media Myth Alert 17 March 2011 at 7am

  194. […] in his column offered overviews of some of the 10 media-driven myths dismantled in Getting It Wrong, including the notion that “Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of […]

    ‘So to Speak’ about ‘Getting It Wrong’ « Media Myth Alert 18 March 2011 at 6am

  195. […] gave a talk about media-driven myths yesterday on the campus of Ohio Wesleyan University, where years ago I earned my undergraduate […]

    Talking media myths at the alma mater « Media Myth Alert 19 March 2011 at 9am

  196. […] I write in Getting It Wrong, my media-mythbusting book that came out last […]

    Recalling the hero of Nasiriyah: It wasn’t Jessica Lynch « Media Myth Alert 22 March 2011 at 8am

  197. […] “effectively” brought down a president, is the stuff of legend. It’s a powerful media-driven myth that offers a simplistic and misleading interpretation of the country’s greatest political […]

    WaPo ‘played pivotal role’ in Watergate? Think again « Media Myth Alert 24 March 2011 at 7am

  198. […] such, journalists are known to flub it — or indulge in media myths — when they do take up the past. Consider, for example, the Bangor Daily News in Maine, which […]

    Hearst and war: A newspaper misreads history « Media Myth Alert 28 March 2011 at 8am

  199. […] To argue that “the Post’s reporting led to the downfall” of Nixon is to misread the history of Watergate and to indulge in a beguiling media-driven myth. […]

    Watergate and revolutions: Indulging in media-power myths « Media Myth Alert 29 March 2011 at 11am

  200. […] media myth about Vietnam often revolves around the so-called “Cronkite Moment” in February 1968, […]

    He may be a crook, but he’s right about Vietnam, Watergate « Media Myth Alert 31 March 2011 at 10am

  201. […] no small amount of myth to unpack in that paragraph. Most […]

    What a Rash remark: ‘If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve….’ « Media Myth Alert 2 April 2011 at 7am

  202. […] many media-driven myths, the false narrative about the Pentagon offers a simplistic, easy-to-understand account of an event […]

    Time for WaPo to disclose sources on bogus Lynch story « Media Myth Alert 3 April 2011 at 7am

  203. […] claims for the Watergate reporting of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein seldom are very modest. The mythical notion that their reporting brought down President Richard Nixon in 1974 is among the most cherished […]

    More mythical claims for WaPo’s Watergate reporting « Media Myth Alert 16 April 2011 at 8am

  204. […] as I discuss in Getting It Wrong, my media-mythbusting book that came out last year, neither Kennedy nor anyone in his administration asked or lobbied the […]

    Canada’s CBC invokes Bay of Pigs suppression myth « Media Myth Alert 17 April 2011 at 2am

  205. […] emasculate, or sanitize the article it published April 7, 1961, which lies at the heart of this media-driven myth. Szulc of the […]

    CBC modifies its Bay of Pigs claim — but still has it wrong « Media Myth Alert 19 April 2011 at 2pm

  206. […] than any other single factor, the movie All the President’s Men propelled the media myth of the heroic journalist — the beguiling notion that Woodward and Bernstein’s […]

    That’s rich: Woodward bemoans celebrity journalism « Media Myth Alert 24 April 2011 at 11am

  207. […] most prominent media-driven myths — those dubious or apocryphal stories about the news media that masquerade as factual — […]

    Fact-checking ‘Mother Jones’: A rare two-fer « Media Myth Alert 26 April 2011 at 7am

  208. […] point is not that there were inaccuracies….of course there would be. This only happens every time there is an event like this. My point […]

    Nobody could have predicted… | Nothing Is Worse 4 May 2011 at 9am

  209. […] many consensus narratives and media-driven myths, though, the Times-Bay of Pigs suppression tale is too neat and tidy, too rich and delicious, ever […]

    Bay of Pigs suppression myth too rich and delicious to die away « Media Myth Alert 7 May 2011 at 5am

  210. […] time to time at Media Myth Alert, I’ve noted how American media myths have been embraced with gusto by news outlets […]

    Perceptive observations about Woodward, Bernstein, media power « Media Myth Alert 9 May 2011 at 5am

  211. […] It Wrong, which was published last year by the University of California Press, debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths, which are dubious tales about the news media that masquerade as […]

    ‘Getting It Wrong’ wins SPJ award for Research about Journalism « Media Myth Alert 10 May 2011 at 9am

  212. […] my latest book, Getting It Wrong, the purported “Cronkite Moment” a prominent and hardy media-driven myth — a dubious tale about the news media masquerading as […]

    Pakistan facing its ‘Cronkite Moment’? That ‘Moment’ is a myth « Media Myth Alert 13 May 2011 at 5am

  213. […] “Follow the money,” the line so readily associated with the Washington Post and its Watergate reporting, is freighted with no fewer than three related media myths. […]

    A ‘follow the money’ hat trick « Media Myth Alert 14 May 2011 at 9am

  214. […] I’ve posted more than 275 essays at Media Myth Alert, nearly all of them calling attention to media-driven myths that have found their way into traditional or online […]

    Recalling that a ‘debunker’s work is never done’ « Media Myth Alert 20 May 2011 at 5am

  215. […] It’s based on a single, unnamed source, and it draws sustenance from a media-driven myth. […]

    ‘Area 51′ book offers implausible, myth-based tale « Media Myth Alert 21 May 2011 at 6am

  216. […] of my favored characterizations of media-driven myths, those dubious tales about media power that masquerade as factual, is that they’re the […]

    Media myths, the ‘comfort food’ of journalism « Media Myth Alert 25 May 2011 at 4am

  217. […] well said, too. It’s a characterization that offers insight about the rise and diffusion of media-driven myths, 10 of which I debunk in my latest book, Getting It […]

    Every good historian a mythbuster « Media Myth Alert 27 May 2011 at 6am

  218. […] striking how several well-known journalists and news outlets have indulged over last six months in media-driven myths, those dubious tales about the news media that masquerade as […]

    Why they get it wrong « Media Myth Alert 3 June 2011 at 6am

  219. […] offer evidence in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, which debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths, that bras were  set afire, briefly, during the protest on the Atlantic City boardwalk on […]

    Bra-burning, a media myth ‘that will never die’? « Media Myth Alert 8 June 2011 at 1pm

  220. […] Media-driven myths have a variety of perverse applications — including value in scoring points in arguments. […]

    Invoking Murrow-McCarthy myth to assert the worthiness of TV « Media Myth Alert 11 June 2011 at 6am

  221. […] The Zhou comment also represents a reminder about the often-irresistible quality of pithy and apparently telling quotations — a topic discussed in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, which addresses and debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths. […]

    ‘Too early to say’: Zhou was speaking about 1968, not 1789 « Media Myth Alert 14 June 2011 at 8am

  222. […] myth of viewer-listener disagreement — that television viewers and radio listeners had starkly […]

    Appearance decisive in politics? Revisiting the Kennedy-Nixon debate « Media Myth Alert 23 June 2011 at 4am

  223. […] discussed a number of the media-driven myths debunked in Getting It Wrong, including, in some detail, the mythical “Cronkite Moment” […]

    ‘Getting It Wrong’ at ‘Reader’s Corner’ tonight « Media Myth Alert 24 June 2011 at 6am

  224. […] their extreme, media-driven myths are hero-worshipping devices, invoked to venerate journalists as […]

    The journos who saved us « Media Myth Alert 5 July 2011 at 12pm

  225. […] the claim was long ago demolished as a media-driven myth, it remains too good not to be true, too delicious to […]

    Yellow journalism ‘brought about Spanish-American War’? But how? « Media Myth Alert 13 July 2011 at 8am

  226. […] purported vow to “furnish the war” with Spain is a particularly tenacious media-driven myth — a prominent but dubious tale about journalism that masquerades as […]

    BBC calls Hearst vow apocryphal, quotes it anyway « Media Myth Alert 15 July 2011 at 10am

  227. […] many media-driven myths, the tale of inspiration is almost too good not to be […]

    Imprecise, overwrought Watergate analogies emerge in Murdoch scandal « Media Myth Alert 17 July 2011 at 3am

  228. […] It Wrong addresses and debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths, those dubious tales about the news media that masquerade as […]

    A ‘fascinating and detailed exploration’ « Media Myth Alert 19 July 2011 at 9am

  229. […] it has receded in time and memory, the Watergate scandal of 1972-74 has become ever more prone to myth and misleading interpretation. Bernstein in 2009 (Newseum […]

    Inflating the exploits of WaPo’s Watergate reporters « Media Myth Alert 22 July 2011 at 8am

  230. […] buttress that point, the usually well-reported Economist turns to a media myth — the discredited notion that press baron William Randolph Hearst, the timeless bogeyman of […]

    ‘Economist’ indulges in media myth « Media Myth Alert 22 July 2011 at 8am

  231. […] building a reputation for indulging in media-driven myths, […]

    More media myths from CounterPunch « Media Myth Alert 24 July 2011 at 8am

  232. […] “Turns of phrase that sound too neat and tidy often are too perfect to be true,” I write in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, which addresses and debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths. […]

    He ‘did a Zhou Enlai’ « Media Myth Alert 26 July 2011 at 10am

  233. […] book, Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate, repeats the hoary media myth that the yellow press of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer brought on the […]

    Juan Williams’ new book repeats Spanish-American War myth « Media Myth Alert 27 July 2011 at 8am

  234. […] so, the media myth about Woodward, Bernstein, and the Post — the heroic-journalist myth, as I describe it in my […]

    A media myth eruption: WaPo, Watergate, and Nixon’s fall « Media Myth Alert 30 July 2011 at 5am

  235. […] Rich, in a lengthy New York magazine screed about Rupert Murdoch, invokes the hoary media myth that William Randolph Hearst’s “papers famously fomented the Spanish-American War and […]

    Some dubious history from Frank Rich « Media Myth Alert 1 August 2011 at 9am

  236. […] But the Post-Watergate trope, of course, is a powerful media-driven myth. […]

    No ‘rock-em,’ no ‘sock-em’: What ails WaPo « Media Myth Alert 7 August 2011 at 12pm

  237. […] the 37th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s resignation, to direct attention to the myth and hyperbole that embrace the best-known line of the Watergate scandal, the line that supposedly […]

    Following the money on 37th anniversary of Nixon’s fall « Media Myth Alert 9 August 2011 at 12am

  238. […] I also expect to note there are personal reasons for blogging as well. By blogging, journalism historians can test emergent ideas and hypotheses. Blogging can reinforce (and direct attention to) previously published work — much as Media Myth Alert seeks to do in promoting my latest book, Getting It Wrong, which debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths. […]

    Blogging about journalism history: Why, and why bother? « Media Myth Alert 10 August 2011 at 8am

  239. […] 113th anniversary of the effective end of the Spanish-American War — and offered up a hoary media myth in discussing newspaper coverage of the […]

    Media myth infiltrates NYTimes ‘Learning Network’ « Media Myth Alert 13 August 2011 at 12am

  240. […] In that way, it’s akin to other deliciously irresistible quotations that are just too neat and too tidy to be true — a topic I discuss in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, which addresses and debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths. […]

    That’s not what Zhou meant « Media Myth Alert 17 August 2011 at 7am

  241. […] Embracing that interpretation of Watergate, I write my media-mythbusting book, Getting It Wrong, “is to abridge and misunderstand the scandal and to indulge in a particularly beguiling media-driven myth.” […]

    Misreporting Watergate « Media Myth Alert 20 August 2011 at 5am

  242. […] The heroic-journalist interpretation of Watergate, I write in Getting It Wrong, is to “misunderstand the scandal and to indulge in a particularly beguiling media-driven myth. […]

    Woodward, Bernstein toppled Nixon? Think again « Media Myth Alert 27 August 2011 at 9am

  243. […] exaggerated tales of Watergate, Hurricane Katrina, and crack babies were the principal media myths I discussed the other day in an interview on KPCW Radio in […]

    Talking media myths on ‘Community Voices’ « Media Myth Alert 3 September 2011 at 3pm

  244. […] out in my latest book, Getting It Wrong (which does not discuss the Jefferson-Hemings controversy), media-driven myths “tend to minimize or negate complexity in historical events and offer simplistic and […]

    Challenge the dominant narrative? Who, us? « Media Myth Alert 4 September 2011 at 9am

  245. […] As superb and influential as it was, Kane took liberties and in doing so helped popularize a powerful media-driven myth. […]

    ‘Kane’ at 70: ‘More relevant than ever’? « Media Myth Alert 10 September 2011 at 9am

  246. […] the media myth, anyway. Like many media myths, it’s a good yarn but thinly documented. There’s scant […]

    More treat than trick: Recalling the ‘War of the Worlds’ radio ‘panic’ « Media Myth Alert 23 September 2011 at 4am

  247. […] tale about “furnish the war” was debunked as a media myth years ago, for […]

    Where do they get this stuff? « Media Myth Alert 24 September 2011 at 5am

  248. […] impressive how strictly American media myths can win such eager embrace in international contexts. A certain American president leaves […]

    A ‘certain American paper brought down a certain president’ « Media Myth Alert 29 September 2011 at 4am

  249. […] Version variability is the imprecision that alters or distorts an anecdote in its retelling, and it’s a marker of a media-driven myth. […]

    Gorging on the mythical ‘Cronkite Moment’ « Media Myth Alert 7 October 2011 at 2am

  250. […] Calgary Herald was the latest to indulge in the myth that “follow the money” was guidance offered by the high-level anonymous source […]

    ‘Deep Throat’ didn’t say ‘follow the money’; nor was he vital in Watergate « Media Myth Alert 13 October 2011 at 12am

  251. […] a myth, as I discuss in my latest book, Getting It Wrong. But it long ago became the dominant narrative of […]

    Historian dismisses as ‘self-promotion’ the heroic-journalist interpretation of Watergate « Media Myth Alert 28 October 2011 at 9am

  252. […] a delicious media myth that The War of the Worlds radio dramatization 73 years ago set off nationwide panic and mass […]

    Why the ‘panic broadcast’ myth lives on « Media Myth Alert 29 October 2011 at 9am

  253. […] The radio show aired October 30, 1938, and supposedly stirred panic and hysteria across the United States — a delicious narrative that I debunk in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, as a media-driven myth. […]

    The ‘War of the Worlds’ radio show produced a ‘Paul Revere effect’ « Media Myth Alert 31 October 2011 at 5pm

  254. […] also spoke about my research into media-driven myths, those prominent, well-known stories about and/or by the news media that are widely believed and […]

    Accepting the Dicken-Garcia Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Journalism History « Media Myth Alert 12 November 2011 at 7am

  255. […] the Watergate break-in, which gave rise to the greatest scandal in U.S. politics — and to the media-driven myth that Washington Post journalists toppled a president. Woodward: 40th anniversary […]

    So it begins: Woodward, Bernstein, and excess in run-up to Watergate’s 40th « Media Myth Alert 4 December 2011 at 12am

  256. […] Moment” is a yardstick of any kind, it’s a measure of how profoundly the media myth has become embedded in the lore of American […]

    Cronkite, Johnson, and the deceptive ‘yardstick’ « Media Myth Alert 7 December 2011 at 11am

  257. […] of the year” not only because of its significance but because of its relevance to busting media myths, those delicious but dubious tales that masquerade as factual and offer distorted views of […]

    The debunking of the year, 2011 « Media Myth Alert 29 December 2011 at 5am

  258. […] Hope,” a satirically named radio show in Gainesville, Florida, to speak about several of the media-driven myths debunked in my latest book, Getting It […]

    ‘Getting It Wrong’ goes on ‘One Hour of Hope’ « Media Myth Alert 10 January 2012 at 12pm

  259. […] Even so, the false narrative took hold and lives on, an ugly media-driven myth. […]

    Abrupt WaPo rollback stirs fresh questions about anonymous source use « Media Myth Alert 11 January 2012 at 12pm

  260. […] Journal’s flattering references to the artist, serve to undercut a tenacious and prominent media-driven myth, an anecdote that ranks as one of the most popular in American […]

    Sketches published 115 years ago undercut a tenacious media myth « Media Myth Alert 24 January 2012 at 5am

  261. […] embracing simplistic explanations is an important way in which media-driven myths — those false, dubious, improbable stories about the news media that masquerade as factual […]

    Bill Clinton: Overstating media influence in regime change « Media Myth Alert 28 January 2012 at 12pm

  262. […] the famous CBS News anchorman from 1963 to 1981, likewise is the subject of a durable media-driven myth — that his editorializing about the war in Vietnam in February 1968 forced President Lyndon […]

    Just what we need: Barbra Streisand, media critic « Media Myth Alert 5 February 2012 at 9am

  263. […] take-it-for-granted reporting can be a factor in the emergence and durability of media-driven myths, the subject of my latest book, Getting It […]

    ‘Accurately, it turned out’? Hardly, in the Jefferson-Hemings allegations « Media Myth Alert 13 February 2012 at 9am

  264. […] April number of Vanity Fair brushes against an entrenched media myth in declaring that the cinematic depiction of the Washington Post’s Watergate reporting […]

    Assessing the propellant effect: Was Watergate a powerful stimulant to journalism? « Media Myth Alert 10 March 2012 at 4am

  265. […] post that so blithely repeats the dubious claim and contributes to perpetuating a hardy seasonal myth. And one that does so without data or […]

    NYT blog embraces ‘March Madness’ myth, claims ‘Zero Productivity Zone’ « Media Myth Alert 15 March 2012 at 2pm

  266. […] notion that “bra-burning” was a widespread element of feminist protest is a media myth that’s probably too engrained, and euphonic, ever to be thoroughly debunked. Fashion […]

    How’s that? ‘Bra-burning’ influenced mid-1960s fashion? « Media Myth Alert 22 March 2012 at 4am

  267. […] I call it a “nuanced myth” in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, which debunks 10 prominent media-driven myths. […]

    The ‘seismic cultural shifts’ of the 1960s: Protests, assassination — and bra-burning? « Media Myth Alert 25 March 2012 at 10am

  268. […] not an infrequent claim, that feminist bra-burning was a media trope, a media myth. That it “never actually […]

    On bra-burning, Erica Jong is wrong « Media Myth Alert 28 March 2012 at 4pm

  269. […] in a flattering writeup recalling the occasion, CBS invoked a prominent media-driven myth — the notion that Cronkite’s on-air assessment in 1968 about the war in Vietnam exerted […]

    CBS marks a Cronkite anniversary, invokes a tenacious media myth « Media Myth Alert 17 April 2012 at 3pm

  270. […] National Press Club indulged in a couple of tenacious media myths about Watergate in announcing the other day it was giving its top award to Bob Woodward, one of the […]

    National Press Club invokes media myths of Watergate « Media Myth Alert 30 April 2012 at 5am

  271. […] colorful, the tale of the purported Hearstian vow is a media-driven myth, one of the hardiest in American […]

    Those ‘warmongering’ papers of William Randolph Hearst « Media Myth Alert 1 May 2012 at 5am

  272. […] critic Howard Kurtz invokes one of American journalism’s most tenacious media myths in a review today about the forthcoming biography of Walter Cronkite, the CBS News anchorman from […]

    Kurtz invokes ‘if I’ve lost Cronkite’ myth in reviewing new Cronkite biography « Media Myth Alert 21 May 2012 at 3pm

  273. […] reason is that the epithet isn’t entirely outlandish.  Like many media myths, the “most trusted” claim rests on the cusp of plausibility. Cronkite was an esteemed […]

    Cronkite ‘the most-trusted’? Where’s the evidence? « Media Myth Alert 9 June 2012 at 8am

  274. […] is the first of five posts addressing prominent media-driven myths about the Watergate scandal, which began unfolding 40 years ago with the foiled burglary at the […]

    The media myths of Watergate: Part One « Media Myth Alert 17 June 2012 at 6am

  275. […] is the second of five posts addressing prominent media-driven myths about the Watergate scandal, which began unfolding 40 years ago this week with the foiled burglary […]

    The media myths of Watergate: Part Two « Media Myth Alert 18 June 2012 at 5am

  276. […] is the third of five posts addressing prominent media-driven myths about the Watergate scandal, which began unfolding 40 years ago this week with the foiled burglary […]

    The media myths of Watergate: Part Three « Media Myth Alert 19 June 2012 at 9am

  277. […] is the fourth of five posts addressing prominent media-driven myths about the Watergate scandal, which began unfolding 40 years ago this week, with the foiled burglary […]

    The media myths of Watergate: Part Four « Media Myth Alert 20 June 2012 at 7am

  278. […] is the last of five posts addressing prominent media-driven myths about the Watergate scandal, which began unfolding 40 years ago this week with the foiled burglary […]

    The media myths of Watergate: Part Five « Media Myth Alert 21 June 2012 at 6am

  279. […] also offers a thoughtful and telling assessment about why media myths take […]

    ‘Getting It Wrong’ receives major shout-out in ‘New Yorker’ « Media Myth Alert 5 July 2012 at 1pm

  280. […] most tenacious myth in American journalism tells of a purported exchange of telegrams in January 1897 between  […]

    Renewing the Hearst-Remington association in a $200,000 grant « Media Myth Alert 8 July 2012 at 10am

  281. […] a fluffy review, published yesterday, that invoked one the American journalism’s best-known media myths — the claim that President Lyndon B. Johnson was dramatically moved by Cronkite’s […]

    Chris Matthews invokes the ‘if I’ve lost Cronkite’ myth in NYT review « Media Myth Alert 9 July 2012 at 7am

  282. […] as I discuss in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, it’s also a tenacious media-driven myth “that offers a deceptive message about the influence radio wielded over listeners in its […]

    The Internet’s uneven capacity to expose media fakes « Media Myth Alert 30 July 2012 at 10am

  283. […] The “light rinse” anecdote notably has been afflicted with version variability — my term for the shifting of important details as a story is retold over the years. As I point out in my 2010 book,  Getting It Wrong, version variability can be a marker of a media-driven myth. […]

    Recalling George Romney’s ‘brainwashing’ — and Gene McCarthy’s ‘light rinse’ retort « Media Myth Alert 4 September 2012 at 3pm

  284. […] debunking notwithstanding, the myth of viewer-listener disagreement tends to resurface at or near the anniversaries of the first […]

    Some dubious election history from Al Jazeera English « Media Myth Alert 20 September 2012 at 12pm

  285. […] noted yesterday how the myth of viewer-listener disagreement — that television viewers and radio listeners had clashing […]

    USA Today invokes Kennedy-Nixon debate myth « Media Myth Alert 21 September 2012 at 9am

  286. […] and Republican challenger Mitt Romney has, inevitably, spurred the renewed circulation of a hoary media myth centered around the first such presidential debate, in September […]

    In run-up to Obama-Romney encounter, myth of first presidential debate circulates anew « Media Myth Alert 30 September 2012 at 5am

  287. […] many media-driven myths, it is after all almost too delicious not to be […]

    1960 myth ricochets around the media in advance of Obama-Romney debate « Media Myth Alert 3 October 2012 at 1pm

  288. […] many media myths, the notion of listener-viewer disagreement is so delicious that it must have been […]

    Debates are over, media myth lives on « Media Myth Alert 28 October 2012 at 12pm

  289. […] On more than a few occasions, Twitter has demonstrated a striking capacity to debunk embryonic media myths — including those myths it helped set […]

    Social-media triumphalism and its myth-busting limits « Media Myth Alert 31 October 2012 at 3pm

  290. […] The media myth associated with the image is that U.S. forces carried out the aerial napalm attack that terrorized and injured the children near Trang Bang. […]

    The subtlety of media myths: A ‘New Yorker’ brief and the napalm-attack myth « Media Myth Alert 19 November 2012 at 6pm

  291. […] myth appears in the timeline entry for 1974, which says: “A corrupt U.S. president, Richard Nixon, […]

    Media myth distorts Chicago Tribune timeline of newspaper history « Media Myth Alert 20 November 2012 at 9am

  292. […] the holiday season number is not the first time the Economist has fallen for the media myth of yellow […]

    ‘They even started wars’: Nonsense in the Economist’s holiday double issue « Media Myth Alert 22 December 2012 at 6am

  293. […] Myth Alert reported in 2012 on the appearance of many prominent media-driven myths and errors. Here are the year’s five top writeups, followed by a roster of other mythbusting […]

    Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2012 « Media Myth Alert 30 December 2012 at 6am

  294. […] The War of the Worlds radio program of October 30, 1938, set off a wildfire of panic is a hoary media myth — a myth so tenaciously held that not even a sustained social media campaign could undo […]

    ‘Digital wildfires’ and the ‘War of the Worlds’ media myth « Media Myth Alert 9 January 2013 at 12pm

  295. […] But both comparisons are strained and feeble: They seek to reapportion to contemporary contexts influence the legendary Cronkite never really possessed. As such, they succeed only in promoting a media-driven myth. […]

    Oprah as ‘this generation’s Walter Cronkite’? « Media Myth Alert 13 January 2013 at 3pm

  296. […] the debate about women being permitted to join U.S. military combat units, it was inevitable the media myth would resurface about Jessica Lynch and her purported battlefield heroics in Iraq nearly 10 years […]

    London’s ‘Independent’ steps in media myth about Pentagon and Jessica Lynch « Media Myth Alert 28 January 2013 at 7am

  297. […] reference to the reporters who “took down a president” is wrong-headed: It’s a media myth that simplifies and distorts the forces and factors that led Nixon to quit in […]

    The ‘newsroom where two reporters took down a president’? Sure it was « Media Myth Alert 2 February 2013 at 7am

  298. […] well-known that media myths — those tall tales about the purported feats of American journalists — can go viral, […]

    Media myth outbreak abroad; ‘Cronkite Moment’ goes viral « Media Myth Alert 9 February 2013 at 8am

  299. […] The runup to the Academy Awards ceremony brings inevitable bursts of nostalgia — as well as the almost-predictable appearance of hoary media myths. […]

    Runup to the Oscars: ‘Politically inspired movies’ and the myth of Watergate | Media Myth Alert 22 February 2013 at 2pm

  300. […] the largest talk-show audiences on radio. Which is why it’s troubling when he indulges in media myths, as he’s done the past two […]

    If Obama loses AP: Rush Limbaugh embraces media myths two days running | Media Myth Alert 26 February 2013 at 6pm

  301. […] discuss the media myth of Watergate in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, and write that the scandal demanded “the […]

    Woodward ‘destroyed the Nixon presidency’: More dubious history from Rush Limbaugh | Media Myth Alert 1 March 2013 at 7am

  302. […] There’s no persuasive evidence or documentation that Johnson ever said, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.” Or anything close to that statement.  Indeed, versions of what Johnson purportedly said vary markedly — and such variability can be a marker of a media-driven myth. […]

    Confused and illogical: WaPo commentary on effects of ‘Cronkite Moment’ | Media Myth Alert 3 March 2013 at 8am

  303. […] Citizen Hearst. It is an irresistible tale often invoked in support of a broader and nastier media myth, that Hearst and his newspapers fomented the Spanish-American War in […]

    William Randolph Hearst mostly elusive in ‘Citizen Hearst’ documentary | Media Myth Alert 15 March 2013 at 10am

  305. […] I note in my media-mythbusting book, Getting It Wrong, it’s an interpretation of Watergate that not even the Post […]

    Both left, right embrace media myth about WaPo and Watergate | Media Myth Alert 8 April 2013 at 1pm

  306. […] PBS description sounds as if the program will embrace a hoary media-driven myth — that The War of the Worlds show of October 30, 1938, set off widespread panic and mass […]

    PBS set to embrace ‘mass hysteria’ myth in anniversary show on ‘War of Worlds’? | Media Myth Alert 13 May 2013 at 12pm

  307. […] only does Salon indulge in media myth, its commentary probably overstates the impact of Stewart’s segment about the […]

    Obama’s ‘Cronkite Moment’? ‘Salon’ dials up a media myth | Media Myth Alert 14 May 2013 at 6pm

  308. […] yet, on this anniversary, the simplistic, media myth circulates anew — that two dogged reporters for the Washington Post, Bob Woodward and Carl […]

    Still hardy after 40 years: The myth that Woodward, Bernstein ‘brought down’ Nixon | Media Myth Alert 17 May 2013 at 10am

  309. […] the supposed reactions to Cronkite’s report lurks one the most popular and enduring myths of American […]

    Cronkite report on Vietnam was ‘most influential TV show ever’? | Media Myth Alert 18 June 2013 at 10am

  310. […] all media myths, the “furnish the war” anecdote has some factual scaffolding. But Foreman misstates a […]

    Mistaking conspiracy for sloppy history in Hearst’s ‘vow’ to ‘furnish the war’ | Media Myth Alert 29 June 2013 at 3pm

  311. […] history makes for faint humor. Even worse, the inaugural show promotes a notably tenacious media myth in offering a chaotic look at the Watergate scandal of […]

    Vomit humor and scandal: Inane ‘Drunk History’ TV show promotes Watergate media myth | Media Myth Alert 8 July 2013 at 8am

  312. […] is more than hair-splitting. It matters because a fairly tenacious media myth has grown up around the notion that Nixon in 1968 campaigned for the presidency while touting a […]

    WaPo, Bezos, and owning up to errors ‘quickly and completely’ | Media Myth Alert 6 August 2013 at 7am

  313. […] ever-appealing tale of radio-inducted hysteria is one of the 10 prominent media-driven myths that I addressed and debunked in my latest book, Getting It Wrong. Simply put, the notion that The […]

    Upcoming PBS show on ‘War of Worlds’ may reinforce media myth — in cheesy fashion | Media Myth Alert 29 August 2013 at 11am

  314. […] I had suspected that landmark status would be proposed for the building because of the newspaper’s reporting of the Watergate scandal, which over the years has become a subject of a towering media myth. […]

    Good call: WaPo building no landmark | Media Myth Alert 19 September 2013 at 11am

  315. […] The panic, to be sure, was overstated. Exaggerated. And has become the stuff of a tenacious media-driven myth. […]

    PBS squanders opportunity to offer ‘content that educates’ in ‘War of the Worlds’ doc | Media Myth Alert 29 October 2013 at 10pm

  316. […] described to Getler my concerns that the documentary would embrace the media myth that The War of the Worlds program set off mass panic and nationwide hysteria on the night it was […]

    The ombudsman agrees: PBS ‘War of the Worlds’ doc was missed opportunity | Media Myth Alert 1 November 2013 at 4pm

  317. […] ago became the best-known, most-reprinted editorial in American journalism. It also is decidedly myth-prone, as recent newspaper descriptions of the legendary editorial […]

    Getting it right about ‘Is There a Santa Claus?’ | Media Myth Alert 25 December 2013 at 2pm

  318. […] Myth Alert reported in 2013 on the appearance of numerous and prominent media-driven myths and errors. Here are the five top writeups posted at the blog during 2013, followed by a roster of […]

    Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2013 | Media Myth Alert 29 December 2013 at 10am

  319. […] The “golden age” approach to media history — the notion that there really was a time when journalism and its practitioners were virtuous and inspiring — is flawed in at least three ways: It treats the past as little more than nostalgia; it elevates once-prominent journalists to heroic status, and it encourages the embrace of media-driven myths. […]

    Embracing media myths — and the ‘golden age’ fallacy | Media Myth Alert 3 January 2014 at 12pm

  320. […] likely see a modest surge in the appearance of media myths in the next couple of weeks, with the approach of hallowed moments of exaggerated importance in […]

    On media myths and hallowed moments of exaggerated importance | Media Myth Alert 23 February 2014 at 7am

  321. […] included comments by Douglas Brinkley, an historian and CBS consultant, who invoked a central media myth about the See It Now program, asserting that McCarthy was “a menace on the loose until he met […]

    60 years on, CBS extols Murrow show on McCarthy as TV ‘turning point’ | Media Myth Alert 9 March 2014 at 9am

  322. […] do so is to indulge in a central flaw of a media-driven myth — that of media centrism, of exaggerating the power of the journalism, of attributing to news […]

    Exaggerating the power of ‘napalm girl’ photo | Media Myth Alert 29 May 2014 at 8am

  323. […] with all media myths, this one has some historically accurate scaffolding. But there is no evidence that Hearst ever […]

    The Remington-Hearst media myth invoked anew | Media Myth Alert 19 June 2014 at 11am

  324. […] Media-driven myths can be tenacious because they offer simplified, easy-to-grasp versions of complex events of the past. […]

    No, Politico: Hearst did not cause the Spanish-American War | Media Myth Alert 20 June 2014 at 1pm

  325. […] uncovered evidence that brought down Nixon and his corrupt presidency. It’s one of 10 media-driven myths debunked in my 2010 book, Getting It […]

    WaPo now embracing the dominant myth of Watergate? | Media Myth Alert 22 July 2014 at 8pm

  326. […] You might think that New York Times Magazine is so closely edited that it would avoid trafficking in media-driven myths. […]

    NYTimes Mag and the heroic-journalist myth of Watergate | Media Myth Alert 18 September 2014 at 3pm

  327. […] many other media myths, the “secret plan” anecdote is a dubious bit of popular history that can be too delicious to […]

    Seeking context for Obama’s war, finding media myth | Media Myth Alert 24 September 2014 at 8pm

  328. […] many media myths, the anecdote seems too good not to be true. It is easily remembered and suggests guile and […]

    Nixon’s mythical ‘secret plan’ invoked as putdown in Conn. gubernatorial race | Media Myth Alert 17 October 2014 at 4pm

  329. […] beyond measure seized America that night more than seventy years ago. … Or so the media myth has […]

    Why ‘War of the Worlds’ show didn’t panic America | Media Myth Alert 30 October 2014 at 12pm

  330. […] went live on October 31, 2009, with the objectives of calling out the appearance and publication of media myths and helping to promote my 2010 mythbusting book, Getting It […]

    Marking five years: The best of Media Myth Alert | Media Myth Alert 31 October 2014 at 12pm

  331. […] 2009, and its objective was, and remains, twofold: Calling out the appearance and publication of media myths and helping to promote Getting It Wrong, my media mythbusting book that came out in […]

    Five years on: The best of Media Myth Alert, Part II | Media Myth Alert 31 October 2014 at 1pm

  332. […] Media Myth Alert marked its fifth anniversary in 2014 and reported periodically during the year on the appearance of prominent media-driven myths. […]

    Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2014 | Media Myth Alert 29 December 2014 at 9am

  333. […] if there’s no need to let a media myth stand in the way of a useful […]

    Disputed? Use it anyway: NYTimes invokes Cronkite-Johnson myth | Media Myth Alert 24 January 2015 at 9am

  334. […] In time, though, Cronkite’s report came to be thought of as legendary, as exceptional, as the “Cronkite Moment.” It has become barnacled with media myth. […]

    Cronkite, public opinion, and Vietnam: LATimes overstates the link | Media Myth Alert 27 February 2015 at 2pm

  335. […] the notion of viewer-listener disagreement in the 1960 debate is a media myth — a media myth that endures despite being thoroughly dismantled nearly 30 years ago in […]

    NYTimes review offers up myth about radio listeners and the 1960 debate | Media Myth Alert 16 March 2015 at 9am

  336. […] Almanac” podcast that airs on NPR, Garrison Keillor blithely retold the hoary media myth of William Randolph Hearst’s vow to “furnish the war” with […]

    Hearst, Garrison Keillor, and ‘furnish the war': Celebrities and media myths | Media Myth Alert 29 April 2015 at 8am

  337. […] The tale about the New York Times suppressing its own reporting in the runup to the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba isn’t necessarily the most popular of media myths. […]

    NY Times ‘suppression myth’ makes appearance in ‘Freedom of Speech’ | Media Myth Alert 20 May 2015 at 5pm

  338. […] baffling because Thomas makes no such claim in his book. Indeed, he seems careful not to indulge in media-driven myths. (As I noted at the time at Media Myth Alert, Thomas’ 2010 book, The War Lovers, repeated one […]

    The Woodward, Bernstein stories that ‘toppled’ Nixon: And they were? | Media Myth Alert 19 July 2015 at 4pm

  339. […] Noonan’s reference to the “Cronkite Moment” may seem odd, indirect, and even a bit confusing, given the context. But there’s no doubt she was treating as genuine one of American journalism’s most tenacious myths. […]

    WSJ columnist, trying to explain Trump, trips over Cronkite-Johnson myth | Media Myth Alert 30 August 2015 at 1pm

  340. […] Ramos also has demonstrated a taste for media myth. […]

    Jorge Ramos, media myth-teller | Media Myth Alert 5 September 2015 at 12pm

  342. […] the program set off widespread panic and mass hysteria also is a hoary media myth, a myth that offers deceptive messages about the influence radio wielded over listeners decades ago […]

    The mythical ‘panic broadcast’: Tired cliché of Halloween | Media Myth Alert 30 October 2015 at 9am

  344. […] Myth Alert called attention in 2015 to the appearance of prominent media-driven myths, including cases in which celebrities took up and repeated dubious tall tales about journalists and […]

    Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2015 | Media Myth Alert 29 December 2015 at 11am

  345. […] even a rough outline of the prospective Spielberg project, the resulting movie would be steeped in media myth. Indeed, Deadline Hollywood’s descriptive paragraph quoted above incorporated no fewer than […]

    It would be mired in myth: Spielberg considering a ‘Cronkite Moment’ movie? | Media Myth Alert 15 June 2016 at 7pm

  346. […] many other media-driven myths, it’s a tale almost too good, and too delicious, to resist. (William Safire, a former Nixon […]

    The campaign pledge Nixon never made | Media Myth Alert 10 July 2016 at 9am

  347. […] is a media myth that won’t die, partly because “secret plan” seems so Nixonian in duplicity and […]

    Trump, Nixon, and the ‘secret plan’ media myth | Media Myth Alert 20 July 2016 at 7pm

  348. […] myth of the “Napalm Girl” was invoked yesterday in a 900-word profile of Ut in the Los […]

    ‘Scorched by American napalm’: The media myth of ‘Napalm Girl’ endures | Media Myth Alert 22 August 2016 at 7am

  349. […] Forbes weighed in yesterday on the dust-up over Facebook’s removal of the famous “Napalm Girl” photograph of the Vietnam War. In  doing so, the magazine stepped squarely in a nasty and tenacious media myth. […]

    No, ‘Forbes’: It wasn’t ‘an American napalm attack’ | Media Myth Alert 11 September 2016 at 12pm

  350. […] The runup to Monday’s debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and her Republican foe, Donald Trump, has been accompanied by news accounts about the first debate 56 years ago between major party candidates — and more than a few references to a hoary and tenacious media-driven myth. […]

    Debate myth emerges anew; 2nd edition of ‘Getting It Wrong’ out soon | Media Myth Alert 24 September 2016 at 9am

  351. […] further note that for journalists, media myths “are very seductive: They place the news media at the epicenter of vital and decisive moments […]

    Memorable late October: A new edition of ‘Getting It Wrong’ and more | Media Myth Alert 30 October 2016 at 6pm

  352. […] brutal Cuban dictator as “a towering international figure,” it stepped into the dogged media myth about its own coverage of the run-up to the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in […]

    NYTimes’ Castro obit gets it wrong about NYTimes’ pre-Bay of Pigs coverage | Media Myth Alert 26 November 2016 at 5pm

  353. […] their hand-wringing assessments, news outlets also have stirred up references to hoary media-driven myths, which can be thought of as variants of fake news, only more prominent and entrenched. Despite […]

    Addressing ‘fake news,’ stirring up media myths | Media Myth Alert 11 December 2016 at 3pm

  354. […] book addresses and debunks media-driven myths, which are well-known stories about and/or by the news media that are widely believed and often […]

    Media myths: Prominent cases of ‘fake news’ masquerading as fact | Media Myth Alert 14 December 2016 at 7pm

  355. […] an exchanged of telegrams with the artist Frederick Remington, is one of the most tenacious of all media myths, those dubious tales about and/or by the news media that are widely believed and often retold but […]

    No, ‘Politico’ — Hearst didn’t vow to ‘furnish the war’ | Media Myth Alert 18 December 2016 at 1pm

  356. […] Myth Alert called attention in 2016 to the appearance of prominent media-driven myths, including cases discussed in a new, expanded edition of Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest […]

    Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2016 | Media Myth Alert 28 December 2016 at 6am

  357. […] first weeks of the new year have brought the reappearance of a number of hoary media myths, those false but irresistible tall tales that circulate widely in the news media even though […]

    New year, old myths | Media Myth Alert 15 January 2017 at 3pm

  358. […] Web sites, you’d think mainstream media would be extra-vigilant about not trafficking in media myths, those appealing tall tales about the exploits of […]

    WaPo book review invokes Hearst myth of ‘furnish the war’ | Media Myth Alert 28 January 2017 at 9am

  359. […] the years, the photograph has become embroidered with media myths — notably the erroneous notion that the napalm was dropped by U.S. warplanes. As I discuss in […]

    ‘Napalm Girl’ photograph ‘changed us and our stomach for war’: But how? | Media Myth Alert 14 March 2017 at 4pm

  360. […] The last portion was Grynbaum’s paraphrase — which makes it no less a media myth. […]

    Watergate shows that ‘journalists can, under right circumstances, topple a presidency’: What a myth | Media Myth Alert 1 May 2017 at 8am

  361. […] both treats skeptically and embraces key elements of the “Cronkite Moment,” a tenacious myth about media influence and the war in […]

    Cronkite’s view on Vietnam had ‘tremendous impact,’ new book says: But how? | Media Myth Alert 9 June 2017 at 7am

  362. […] show has long since become encrusted with media myth — namely that Murrow’s report exposed McCarthy’s demagoguery and abruptly ended […]

    Murrow ‘risked his career to confront demagogic Joe McCarthy’? Hardly | Media Myth Alert 1 July 2017 at 3pm

  363. […] essay posted yesterday about “fake news,” the online site Vox summoned a persistent media myth — that of the evocative “Napalm Girl” photograph, taken in Vietnam 45 years […]

    In essay about fake news, ‘Vox’ offers up media myth of the ‘Napalm Girl’ | Media Myth Alert 6 July 2017 at 9pm

  364. […] a high-profile historian writing for CNN completed the unusual feat of working two prominent media myths into a single […]

    CNN commentary incorporates a rare media-myth twofer | Media Myth Alert 17 July 2017 at 12pm

  365. […] most media myths, the one about Richard Nixon’s “secret plan” to end the Vietnam War makes for a […]

    Salon, ‘Tricky Dick,’ and Nixon’s mythical ‘secret plan’ | Media Myth Alert 1 August 2017 at 1pm

  366. […] claims of Hearst’s misconduct are nonsense: They are the stuff of media myth. Enduring media myth, in fact — as made clear by a rambling column posted the other day at […]

    Getting it excruciatingly wrong about Hearst, Remington, Cuba, and war | Media Myth Alert 14 August 2017 at 9am

  367. […] enough, a hardy media myth grew up around the 1960 debate: It’s a robust trope that says radio listeners thought Nixon […]

    No, ‘Politico’ — Viewer-listener disagreement is a myth of JFK-Nixon debate | Media Myth Alert 26 September 2017 at 1pm

  368. […] tale of mass hysteria sown by the War of the Worlds program is one of the 10 prominent media-driven myths that I address and debunk in my new book, Getting It […]

    ‘War of the Worlds’ radio panic was overstated | Media Myth Alert 25 October 2017 at 8am

  369. […] In an essay today in which he imagines returning to New York in 1961, storyteller Garrison Keillor demonstrates anew a fondness for seasoning narratives with media myths. […]

    Imagining Richard Nixon’s ‘secret plan’ for Vietnam | Media Myth Alert 14 November 2017 at 6pm

  370. […] Myth Alert directed attention in 2017 to the appearance of a number of well-known media-driven myths, which are prominent tales about and/or by the news media that are widely believed and often retold […]

    Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2017 | Media Myth Alert 26 December 2017 at 5pm

  371. […] also true, if less hyperbolic, that 1968 can be considered a foundation year for media myths, signaling anew how understanding of the past can be warped by dubious tales and exaggerated […]

    Recalling 1968, year of media myths | Media Myth Alert 5 February 2018 at 8am

  372. […] Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the legendary “Cronkite Moment,” an occasion fitting to recall why the “moment” so treasured by journalists is a hoary and tenacious media myth. […]

    The ‘Cronkite Moment,’ 50 years on: Remembering why it’s a media myth | Media Myth Alert 25 February 2018 at 6pm

  373. […] I write in Getting It Wrong, my media-mythbusting […]

    Recalling the hero of Nasiriyah: It wasn’t Jessica Lynch | Media Myth Alert 21 March 2018 at 5pm

  374. […] occasion, a variety of news outlets independently invoke elements of the same media-driven myth, at about the same time. It’s an occurrence that confirms wide familiarity with prominent […]

    A media myth convergence: Erroneous claims about ‘Napalm Girl’ | Media Myth Alert 20 May 2018 at 12pm

  375. […] It’s the stuff of a tenacious media myth. […]

    Convergence encore: Now the ‘Cronkite Moment’ | Media Myth Alert 22 May 2018 at 2pm

  376. […] a sample of the hagiographic tone of the Post’s retrospective, which centers around the media myth of Cronkite’s report in late February 1968 about the Vietnam War, in which he described the […]

    Hagiographic WaPo and the ‘Cronkite Moment’ myth | Media Myth Alert 27 May 2018 at 10am

  377. […] may seem  incongruous, but media myths typically are invoked in all seriousness, as if the tall tales they tell about journalists and […]

    Diminshed by a media myth | Media Myth Alert 20 June 2018 at 6pm

  378. […] it has been recognized as a media myth for years, the list keeps expanding of journalists who’ve invoked William Randolph […]

    Roster expands of journos who’ve invoked ‘furnish the war’ media myth | Media Myth Alert 1 July 2018 at 8am

  379. […] offers a timeless statement about war’s indiscriminate effects. And it has given rise to media myths, those false, dubious, or improbable tales about and/or by the news media that masquerade as […]

    The insidious media myth of the ‘Napalm Girl’ photo | Media Myth Alert 29 July 2018 at 11am

  380. […] Besides, as I write in Getting It Wrong, reading what was written can be an antidote to media-driven myths. […]

    Say, CJR: Never hurts to check your archives | Media Myth Alert 17 September 2018 at 7am

  381. […] a time of keen awareness about “fake news,” is The War of the Worlds media myth flickering out? Could it be that repeated debunkings over the years have finally taken […]

    The fading of a media myth? | Media Myth Alert 30 October 2018 at 8am

  382. […] essay posted the other day at CJR’s online site embraces the decades-old media myth about the legendary Edward R. Murrow and his critical television report in March 1954 about the […]

    Memo to CJR: History lesson needed | Media Myth Alert 16 November 2018 at 1pm

  383. […] Myth Alert directed attention in 2018 to the not-infrequent appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about and/or by the news media that are widely believed and often retold but […]

    Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2018 | Media Myth Alert 27 December 2018 at 10am

  384. […] Media myths can be appealing like that: Too good to resist. Too good for media outlets not to revive when they think the occasion is fitting. […]

    ‘Fake news about fake news’: Enlisting media myth to condemn Trump’s national emergency | Media Myth Alert 17 February 2019 at 12pm

  385. […] in late January for airing on its “Lectures in History” series. Campbell discussed the media myth of William Randolph Hearst’s purported vow to “furnish the war” with Spain at […]

    Member News Round-up | The History Division 26 February 2019 at 4pm

  386. […] purported vow to “furnish the war” with Spain in 1898. It’s a hoary media myth that Keillor passed off as true on his “Writer’s Almanac” […]

    In ‘Writer’s Almanac’ podcast, Garrison Keillor recycles ‘furnish the war’ media myth | Media Myth Alert 29 May 2019 at 2pm

  387. […] unusual for media myths to be embraced partially — a half-embrace, as it were, of those prominent tall tales about […]

    Hearst, Remington, and the half-embrace of a hoary media myth | Media Myth Alert 17 June 2019 at 10am

  388. […] Media-driven myths spring from diverse sources, including what charitably can be called thin documentation. […]

    ‘Johnson is said to have said’: Squishy attribution, thin documentation, and the ‘Cronkite Moment’ | Media Myth Alert 23 July 2019 at 10am

  389. […] interpretation may of comfort or reassurance to journalists; media-driven myths tend to be that way. But it’s mediacentric claim that grants television far too much credit […]

    ‘Television made all the difference’ in McCarthy’s fall, Watergate? Hardly | Media Myth Alert 29 September 2019 at 6pm

  390. […] to time, Media Myth Alert  has called out the Times for its questionable judgment and its invoking media-driven myths. But in the Jewell case, the Times merited praise for declining to run with the pack. It not as […]

    ‘Richard Jewell,’ pack journalism, and a cinematic disappointment | Media Myth Alert 23 December 2019 at 8am

  391. […] interpretations may reassure journalists, reminding them of their presumed power and influence. Media-driven myths tend to have such an effect. But it’s exceedingly mediacentric to claim television was […]

    Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2019 | Media Myth Alert 28 December 2019 at 7am

  393. […] amid a pandemic, peddling media myths — those prominent stories about and/or by the media that are widely believed and often retold […]

    Even in a pandemic, media myths play on | Media Myth Alert 26 April 2020 at 10am

  394. […] hoary media myth about Richard Nixon’s “secret plan” to end the war in Vietnam is circulating […]

    No, WaPo, Nixon never ‘touted a secret plan to end war in Vietnam’ | Media Myth Alert 2 June 2020 at 8pm

  395. […] endless appeal of media-driven myths rests largely in their supposed affirmation that journalists can be powerful actors whose work and […]

    Cronkite did all that? The anchorman, the president, and the Vietnam War | Media Myth Alert 23 August 2020 at 6am

  396. […] latest book about Donald Trump and his presidency, would credulously recite the hardy media myth that Woodward’s Watergate reporting brought down Richard Nixon’s corrupt […]

    Woodward’s latest Trump book prompts myth-telling about Watergate | Media Myth Alert 22 September 2020 at 7pm

  397. […] of Rage, Bob Woodward‘s latest book about Trump and his presidency, would credulously recite the media myth that Woodward’s Watergate reporting brought down Richard Nixon’s corrupt […]

    Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2020 | Media Myth Alert 30 December 2020 at 9pm

  398. […] He did so August 9, 1974 (and not because of the reporting by the Washington Post; the newspaper’s crucial role in Watergate is a media-driven myth). […]

    The assault on the Capitol, and a president’s precipitous fall | Media Myth Alert 7 January 2021 at 7pm

  399. […] presumed power of the “Napalm Girl” has been at the heart of tenacious media myths about the photograph, which showed a cluster of Vietnamese children fleeing a misdirected air […]

    ‘Napalm Girl’ photographer defies backlash risk and accepts award at White House; is assaulted following night | Media Myth Alert 16 January 2021 at 8pm

  400. […] as a result of the suppression narrative is exaggerated. It’s a media-driven fantasy – one in all many well-known tales concerning the information media which, beneath scrutiny, […]

    60 years after Bay of Pigs, New York Occasions position – and fantasy – made clear | Liliana News 2 April 2021 at 8am

  401. […] for the reason that suppression narrative is exaggerated. It’s a media-driven myth – one of the well known stories concerning the information media which, underneath scrutiny, […]

    Did the New York Occasions Suppress Advance Reporting at the Bay of Pigs Invasion? – In India 2 April 2021 at 11am

  402. […] as a result of the suppression narrative is exaggerated. It’s a media-driven myth – one in all many well-known tales concerning the information media which, beneath scrutiny, […]

    Did the New York Times Suppress Advance Reporting on the Bay of Pigs Invasion? - Fry Electronics 2 April 2021 at 12pm

  403. […] as a result of the suppression narrative is exaggerated. It’s a media-driven myth – one among many well-known tales in regards to the information media which, underneath scrutiny, […]

    Did the New York Times Suppress Advance Reporting on the Bay of Pigs Invasion? | Snopes.com - The Real Facts 2 April 2021 at 12pm

  404. […] because the suppression narrative is exaggerated. It’s a media-driven myth – one of many well-known tales about the news media which, under scrutiny, dissolve as false or […]

    60 years after Bay of Pigs, New York Times role – and myth – made clear – Skandol.com helps you connect the dots through news headlines 2 April 2021 at 2pm

  405. […] because the suppression narrative is exaggerated. It’s a media-driven myth – one of many well-known tales about the news media which, under scrutiny, dissolve as false or […]

    60 years after Bay of Pigs, New York Times role – and myth – made clear - W. Joseph Campbell (04/06/2021) - WallStreetWindow.com 6 April 2021 at 1am

  406. […] because the suppression narrative is exaggerated. It’s a media-driven myth – one of many well-known tales about the news media which, under scrutiny, dissolve as false or […]

    Sixty Years After Bay of Pigs, New York Times' Role – and Myth – Made Clear 7 April 2021 at 12pm

  407. […] because the suppression narrative is exaggerated. It’s a media-driven myth – one of many well-known tales about the news media which, under scrutiny, dissolve as false or […]

    Recalling the ‘New York Times,’ Bay of Pigs suppression myth, 60 years on – W. Joseph Campbell 7 April 2021 at 6pm

  408. […] punctured, the photo op narrative may well live on as a full-blown media-driven myth, as a tale widely believed despite the evidence disputing […]

    Punctured tale of Trump’s photo op may live on as media myth | Media Myth Alert 15 June 2021 at 12pm

  409. […] insidious nature of prominent media myths is evident in how casually they are invoked, as if their veracity is beyond […]

    Insidious: Off-hand references signal deep embedding of prominent media myths | Media Myth Alert 6 July 2021 at 11am

  410. […] claims are hoary, media-driven myths — tales about and/or by the news media that are widely believed and often retold but which, […]

    Once-prominent E&P tells media myths about Murrow, Watergate | Media Myth Alert 18 September 2021 at 10am

  411. […] can be the appeal of media-driven myths, those apocryphal or improbable tales about powerful media influence: They can be too compelling to […]

    ‘Such was Cronkite’s influence’ | Media Myth Alert 10 October 2021 at 6pm

  412. […] anniversary of what is a towering media-driven myth offers an appropriate occasion to revisit the “furnish the war” anecdote and understand […]

    ‘I’ll furnish the war’: 25 reasons why it’s a towering media myth | Media Myth Alert 10 January 2022 at 9am

  413. […] followed was a superficial history lesson that rested on the media myth that overheated newspaper coverage — particularly in the aftermath of the destruction of the […]

    News media foment wars? Debunking a superficial history lesson | Media Myth Alert 20 March 2022 at 10am

  414. […] there, it is but a short step to accepting the dominant popular narrative of Watergate — the myth that Woodward and Bernstein’s reporting brought down […]

    How ‘alone’ was WaPo in reporting emergent Watergate scandal? Not very | Media Myth Alert 30 May 2022 at 12pm

  415. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ myths distort the reality behind a horrific photo of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its impact - The TechTab 2 June 2022 at 3pm

  416. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ myths distort the reality behind a horrific photo of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its impact – Advance Press Net 2 June 2022 at 3pm

  417. […] Such episodes show how “Napalm Girl” is more than strong evidence of the unclear effects of war on civilians. The The picture won the Pulitzer Prizeofficially known as “The Terror of War,” it has also had a tenacious rise media-driven myths. […]

    50 years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ myths distort the reality behind a horrific photo of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its impact - All Tech News 2 June 2022 at 4pm

  418. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ myths distort the reality behind a horrific photo of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its impact - Quick Telecast 2 June 2022 at 6pm

  419. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ myths distort the reality behind a horrific photo of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its impact - Ramandwisse 2 June 2022 at 11pm

  420. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ myths distort the reality behind a horrific photo of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its impact - BIHAR DELEGATION 3 June 2022 at 3pm

  421. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ myths distort the reality behind a horrific photo of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its impact - Bistosh World 3 June 2022 at 4pm

  422. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ myths distort the reality behind a horrific photo of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its impact 3 June 2022 at 5pm

  423. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ myths distort the reality behind a horrific photo of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its impact | In The News Today 3 June 2022 at 5pm

  424. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ myths distort the reality behind a horrific photo of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its impact - ChadsNews 3 June 2022 at 5pm

  425. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ myths distort the reality behind a horrific photo of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its impact - YF-USA 3 June 2022 at 6pm

  426. […] Such episodes sign how “Napalm Lady” is way more than highly effective proof of warfare’s indiscriminate results on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning picture, formally referred to as “The Terror of Battle,” has additionally given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 years after ‘Napalm Lady,’ myths distort the truth behind a horrific photograph of the Vietnam Battle and exaggerate its impression - Bloggancer 3 June 2022 at 9pm

  427. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning imageformally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths, […]

    50 years after 'Napalm Girl,' myths distort the reality behind a horrific photo of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its impact - Latest Buzz Updates 3 June 2022 at 9pm

  428. […] Episodes like these hint at how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of the war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. Pulitzer Prize winning imageFormally known as the “War of Terror”, has also given rise to persistence. media driven myth, […]

    Google News -50 years after 'Napalm Girl', myths distort the reality behind a frightening picture of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its implications - 4 June 2022 at 2am

  429. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ myths distort the reality behind a horrific photo of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its impact - powermeentrepreneurs 4 June 2022 at 7am

  430. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    ‘Napalm Girl’ and the enduring power of media myths – Find World News 5 June 2022 at 1am

  431. […] Such episodes sign how “Napalm Lady” is far more than highly effective proof of warfare’s indiscriminate results on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning picture, formally often known as “The Terror of Conflict”, has additionally given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    Media myths nonetheless encompass the horrific picture of the Vietnam Conflict | live news 5 June 2022 at 2pm

  432. […] इस तरह के एपिसोड संकेत देते हैं कि कैसे “नेपालम गर्ल” नागरिकों पर युद्ध के अंधाधुंध प्रभावों के शक्तिशाली सबूत से कहीं अधिक है। पुलित्जर पुरस्कार विजेता छविऔपचारिक रूप से “युद्ध के आतंक” के रूप में जाना जाता है, ने भी दृढ़ता को जन्म दिया है मीडिया संचालित मिथक. […]

    Media myths nonetheless encompass the horrific photograph of the Vietnam Struggle | News Hot 5 June 2022 at 3pm

  433. […] Such episodes signal that “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of the indiscriminate effects of war on civilians. The Picture of a Pulitzer Prize winnerformally known as the “Terror of War”, it also led to toughness media-led myths. […]

    Media myths still surround the horrific photo of the Vietnam War - missthinkup.com 6 June 2022 at 9am

  434. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    Fifty years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ a horrific photo of the Vietnam War – A Sense of Place Magazine 6 June 2022 at 8pm

  435. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 years after Vietnam’s “Napalm Girl” | Tony's Thoughts 8 June 2022 at 4am

  436. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 years on: Revisiting the myths of the ‘Napalm Girl,’ a photo ‘that doesn’t rest’ | Media Myth Alert 8 June 2022 at 7am

  437. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 Years After ‘Napalm Girl,’ Myths Distort the Reality Behind a Horrific Photo - swifttelecast 11 June 2022 at 12pm

  438. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 Years After ‘Napalm Girl,’ Myths Distort the Reality Behind a Horrific Photo - newscontinue 11 June 2022 at 12pm

  439. […] Such episodes sign how “Napalm Lady” is rather more than highly effective proof of battle’s indiscriminate results on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning picture, formally referred to as “The Terror of Battle,” has additionally given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 Years After ‘Napalm Lady,’ Myths Distort the Actuality Behind a Horrific Photograph – Digital Marketplace 11 June 2022 at 12pm

  440. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 Years After ‘Napalm Girl,’ Myths Distort the Reality Behind a Horrific Photo - TEKANIYA 4U 11 June 2022 at 1pm

  441. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 Years After ‘Napalm Girl,’ Myths Distort the Reality Behind a Horrific Photo - AMZ KING KOREA 11 June 2022 at 3pm

  442. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 Years After ‘Napalm Girl,’ Myths Distort the Reality Behind a Horrific Photo | PetaPixel 11 June 2022 at 4pm

  443. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 Years After ‘Napalm Girl,’ Myths Distort the Reality Behind a Horrific Photo - MB DROPS 11 June 2022 at 4pm

  444. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 Years After ‘Napalm Girl,’ Myths Distort the Reality Behind a Horrific Photo – Fealse 11 June 2022 at 4pm

  445. […] Such episodes sign how “Napalm Lady” is rather more than highly effective proof of battle’s indiscriminate results on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning picture, formally generally known as “The Terror of Warfare,” has additionally given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 Years After ‘Napalm Lady,’ Myths Distort the Actuality Behind a Horrific Picture – hqwallbase 11 June 2022 at 4pm

  446. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 Years After ‘Napalm Girl,’ Myths Distort the Reality Behind a Horrific Photo - Mobilestuffonline.com 11 June 2022 at 5pm

  447. […] Solche Episoden zeigen, dass „Napalm Girl“ viel mehr ist als ein überzeugender Beweis für die willkürlichen Auswirkungen des Krieges auf die Zivilbevölkerung. Das Mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnetes Bildfrüher bekannt als „Der Terror des Krieges“, hat auch zu Hartnäckigkeit geführt Mediengetriebene Mythen. […]

    50 Jahre nach „Napalm Girl“ verzerren Mythen die Realität hinter einem schrecklichen Foto – Svenger 11 June 2022 at 8pm

  448. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 Years After ‘Napalm Girl,’ Myths Distort the Reality Behind a Horrific Photo | Jim & Sami Store 11 June 2022 at 8pm

  449. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 Years After ‘Napalm Girl,’ Myths Distort the Reality Behind a Horrific Photo – BEST TECH WORLD 11 June 2022 at 9pm

  450. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 Years After ‘Napalm Girl,’ Myths Distort the Reality Behind a Horrific Photo - SENSIP 11 June 2022 at 11pm

  451. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

    50 Years After ‘Napalm Girl,’ Myths Distort the Reality Behind a Horrific Photo - NewsGroove Uk 12 June 2022 at 12am

  452. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

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  453. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

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  454. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

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  455. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

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  456. […] gọi là “Sự khủng khiếp của chiến tranh”, cũng đã làm nảy sinh những huyền thoại dai dẳng do phương tiện truyền thông điều […]

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  457. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

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  458. […] Such episodes signal how “Napalm Girl” is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image, formally known as “The Terror of War,” has also given rise to tenacious media-driven myths. […]

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  459. […] most media myths, the heroic-journalist interpretation of Watergate rests on a foundation of simplicity. It glosses […]

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