Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface to the Second Edition xi
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. “I’ll Furnish the War”: The Making of a Media Myth 9
8. 2. Fright beyond Measure? The Myth of The War of the Worlds 26
9. 3. Murrow vs. McCarthy: Timing Makes the Myth 44
10. 4. TV Viewers, Radio Listeners, and the Myth of the First Kennedy-Nixon Debate 67
11. 5. The Bay of Pigs–New York Times Suppression Myth 83
12. 6. Debunking the “Cronkite Moment” 100
13. 7. The Nuanced Myth: Bra Burning at Atlantic City 116
14. 8. Picture Power? Confronting the Myths of the Napalm Girl Photograph 130
15. 9. It’s All about the Media: Watergate’s Heroic-Journalist Myth 150
16. 10. The “Fantasy Panic”: The News Media and the “Crack-Baby” Myth 165
17. 11. “She Was Fighting to the Death”: Mythmaking in Iraq 179
18. 12. Hurricane Katrina and the Myth of Superlative Reporting 197
19. 13. Counterfeit Quotations: Swelling with a Digital Tide 218
20. Conclusion 231
21. Notes 239
22. Select Bibliography 317
23. Index 327