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A glowing, hagiographic treatment of the ‘Cronkite Moment’
The evidence that the mythical “Cronkite Moment” was of minor consequence is compelling and multidimensional. The “Cronkite Moment” was the televised report in February 1968 wh… more →
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A glowing, hagiographic treatment of the 'Cronkite Moment'
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wrote 1 day ago: The evidence that the mythical “Cronkite Moment” was of minor consequence is compelling … more →
Misremembering the Jessica Lynch case, on Memorial Day
wrote 4 days ago: It’s astonishing how engrained the false narrative has become that the Pentagon made up the he … more →
Kurtz invokes 'if I've lost Cronkite' myth in reviewing new Cronkite biography
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wrote 1 week ago: Media critic Howard Kurtz invokes one of American journalism’s most tenacious media myths in a … more →
Cronkite biographer on the 'Cronkite Moment': A bit muddled
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wrote 1 week ago: Historian Douglas Brinkley will be out soon with an 800-page biography of Walter Cronkite, the promi … more →
Under pressure
wrote 3 weeks ago: A recent issue of the London Review of Books had this: The unit of measurement of this pressure is t … more →
Those 'warmongering' papers of William Randolph Hearst
wrote 1 month ago: The first major engagement of the Spanish-American War took place 114 years ago today — in the … more →
National Press Club invokes media myths of Watergate
wrote 1 month ago: The National Press Club indulged in a couple of tenacious media myths about Watergate in announcing … more →
Digitally scrubbing WaPo's embarrassment on Jessica Lynch?
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wrote 1 month ago: The Washington Post carried a fine story yesterday about Vogue magazine’s apparent removal fro … more →
CBS marks a Cronkite anniversary, invokes a tenacious media myth
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wrote 1 month ago: CBS News yesterday marked what has to be among the more obscure anniversaries in broadcast journalis … more →
Woodward and Bernstein: The 'only superstars newspapers ever produced'?
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wrote 1 month ago: The 40th anniversary of the debut of the Watergate scandal falls in two months and we’re certa … more →
Did Watergate's 'Deep Throat' know he was 'Deep Throat'?
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wrote 1 month ago: Felt: Did he know he was 'Deep Throat'? Barry Sussman, the Washington Post’s Watergate editor … more →
Why WaPo should reveal sources on bogus Jessica Lynch tale
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wrote 1 month ago: Today is the ninth anniversary of the Washington Post‘s stunningly wrong hero-warrior tale abo … more →
On bra-burning, Erica Jong is wrong
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wrote 2 months ago: Bra-burning in Toronto, 1979 (Bettmann/Corbis) The writer Erica Jong asserts in a rambling commentar … more →
The 'seismic cultural shifts' of the 1960s: Protests, assassination -- and bra-burning?
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wrote 2 months ago: Feminist “bra-burning” of the late 1960s was more media myth than sustained reality. But … more →
How's that? 'Bra-burning' influenced mid-1960s fashion?
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wrote 2 months ago: The notion that “bra-burning” was a widespread element of feminist protest is a media my … more →
NYTimes blog embraces 'March Madness' myth, claims 'Zero Productivity Zone'
wrote 2 months ago: The productivity myth of March Madness has kicked around for years, apparently immune to the most th … more →
Assessing the propellant effect: Was Watergate a powerful stimulant to journalism?
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wrote 2 months ago: The April number of Vanity Fair brushes against an entrenched media myth in declaring that the cinem … more →
James Fallows and 'furnish the war': Indulging in a media myth
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wrote 3 months ago: Young Hearst In deploring “carefree talk” about pre-emptively bombing Iran’s nucle … more →
Wasn't so special: Revisiting the 'Cronkite Moment,' 44 years on
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wrote 3 months ago: A legendary moment in network news came 44 years ago tonight, when CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkit … more →
