Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media that are widely believed and often retold b...
https://mediamythalert.com/2022/12/27/taking-stock-top-mythbusting-posts-of-2022/
A new memoir by former Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan praises the newspaper’s Watergate reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, for having “lit the kindling” that set...
The latest burst of self-congratulatory hoopla about Watergate and the Washington Post subsided weeks ago, with the 50th anniversary of the foiled break-in that set off the country’s gravest ...
It’s small wonder that the heroic-journalist myth defines popular understanding of Watergate. Other than Woodward and Bernstein, no personalities prominent in Watergate were the subjects of a b...
This essay was first published at The Conversation news site on June 2, 2022, and appears here slightly edited. The “Napalm Girl” photograph of terror-stricken Vietnamese children fleeing an ...
https://mediamythalert.com/2022/06/08/50-years-on-revisiting-the-myths-of-the-napalm-girl/
It wouldn’t be a major Watergate anniversary without prominent references to the heroic-journalist myth — that risible, media-centric view that the Washington Post’s reporting exposed the c...
It’s long been a misleading element of media lore that the Washington Post was mostly alone in reporting the unfolding scandal of Watergate, which broke nearly 50 years ago and eventually broug...
No, the news media do not foment war. That's the entitlement of government leaders and policymakers, inept or otherwise.
The heroic-journalist myth of Watergate has become so ingrained in journalism that its casual mention can prompt little challenge from editors.
25 reasons why Hearst's purported 'furnish the war' anecdote in a towering and tenacious media-driven myth
https://mediamythalert.com/2022/01/10/ill-furnish-the-war-25-reasons-why-its-a-towering-media-myth/