Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. “I’ll Furnish the War”: The Making of a Media Myth

2. Fright beyond Measure? The Myth of The War of the Worlds

3. Murrow vs. McCarthy: Timing Makes the Myth

4. TV Viewers, Radio Listeners, and the Myth of the First Kennedy-Nixon Debate

5. The Bay of Pigs–New York Times Suppression Myth

6. Debunking the “Cronkite Moment”

7. The Nuanced Myth: Bra Burning at Atlantic City

8. Picture Power? Confronting the Myths of the Napalm Girl Photograph

9. It’s All about the Media: Watergate’s Heroic-Journalist Myth

10. The “Fantasy Panic”: The News Media and the “Crack-Baby” Myth

11. “She Was Fighting to the Death”: Mythmaking in Iraq

12. Hurricane Katrina and the Myth of Superlative Reporting

13. Counterfeit Quotations: Swelling with a Digital Tide

Conclusion

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

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