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National Press Club invokes media myths of Watergate
The 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 Washington Post’s lead r… more →
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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 →
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 →
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 →
Carl Bernstein, naive and over the top
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wrote 3 months ago: Rupert Murdoch, the global media mogul beset by scandal at his British tabloids, may be the greatest … more →
'Getting It Wrong' goes on 'One Hour of Hope'
wrote 4 months ago: I recently was on “One Hour of Hope,” a satirically named radio show in Gainesville, Flo … more →
'Follow the money' and the power of cinema
wrote 4 months ago: No film about the Watergate scandal has been viewed by more people than All the President’s Me … more →
Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2011
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wrote 5 months ago: Reviewing the year in media-mythbusting reveals a number of memorable posts. Here are the Media Myth … more →
So it begins: Woodward, Bernstein, and excess in run-up to Watergate's 40th
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wrote 6 months ago: American journalists love anniversaries, so expect excess next year at the 40th anniversary of the W … more →
'Immortal advice' given only in a movie
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wrote 6 months ago: Add the New Yorker blog “Rational Irrationality” to the lineup of news organizations and … more →
Historian dismisses as 'self-promotion' the heroic-journalist interpretation of Watergate
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wrote 7 months ago: Kutler Stanley I. Kutler, the preeminent historian of the Watergate scandal, was on campus yesterday … more →
'Deep Throat' didn't say 'follow the money'; nor was he vital in Watergate
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wrote 7 months ago: It is quite impressive how Watergate’s most famous made-up line — “follow the mone … more →
Joe McGinniss, 'Deep Throat,' and anonymous sources
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wrote 7 months ago: Joe McGinniss, author of a scathing biography about Sarah Palin, yesterday defended using anonymous … more →
NYTimes errs, claims Woodward, Bernstein 'unraveled' Watergate
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wrote 7 months ago: The New York Times inaccurately declared over the weekend that Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, in t … more →
Made-up Watergate line, 'follow the money,' crosses into the news
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wrote 8 months ago: Kenneth H. Dahlberg, a minor Watergate figure, died the other day and Minnesota Public Radio recalle … more →
Carl Bernstein, at it again
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wrote 8 months ago: Carl Bernstein, he of Watergate fame, was in London the other day, waxing indignant about the phone- … more →
A 'certain American paper brought down a certain president'
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wrote 8 months ago: It’s impressive how strictly American media myths can win such eager embrace in international … more →
The 'stories that brought down a president': Sure, they did
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wrote 8 months ago: The Guardian, one of London’s top newspapers, bought into Watergate’s dominant myth yest … more →
Talking media myths on 'Community Voices'
wrote 9 months ago: The exaggerated tales of Watergate, Hurricane Katrina, and crack babies were the principal media myt … more →
