{"product_id":"getting-it-wrong-w-joseph-campbell-9780520291294","title":"Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism","description":"Many of American journalism's best-known and most cherished stories are exaggerated, dubious, or apocryphal. They are media-driven myths, and they attribute to the news media and their practitioners far more power and influence than they truly exert. In \u003ci\u003eGetting It Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e, writer and scholar W. Joseph Campbell confronts and dismantles prominent media-driven myths, describing how they can feed stereotypes, distort understanding about the news media, and deflect blame from policymakers. Campbell debunks the notions that the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e's Watergate reporting brought down Richard M. Nixon's corrupt presidency, that Walter Cronkite's characterization of the Vietnam War in 1968 shifted public opinion against the conflict, and that William Randolph Hearst vowed to \"furnish the war\" against Spain in 1898. This expanded second edition includes a new preface and new chapters about the first Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960, the haunting \u003ci\u003eNapalm Girl\u003c\/i\u003e photograph of the Vietnam War, and bogus quotations driven by the Internet and social media.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. Joseph Campbell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520291298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520291294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/18\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"W. Joseph Campbell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946702012671,"sku":"9780520291294","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0ed35b79-9723-40a2-92b9-e725cb78e5dc.jpg?v=1681514644","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/getting-it-wrong-w-joseph-campbell-9780520291294","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}