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#1960s flashback:
Bras *were* set afire, if briefly, at #MissAmerica protest, #OTD in 1968 at Atlantic City
#mediamyth #braburning @ThePressofAC #womensliberation
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The hero-journalist trope, #Watergate’s go-to mythical narrative: Why it endures
#mediamyth
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No, #Hearst and yellow journalism did *not* foment the Spanish-American War (declared #OTD in 1898)
#mediamyth #war
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The ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion, 65 years on.
Recalling the @NYTimes-suppression #mediamyth:
"The notion that Kennedy asked or persuaded the Times to suppress, hold back, or dilute any of its reports about the pending Bay of Pigs invasion is utter fancy."
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My take: "Mythmaking at the movies: "All the President's Men' at 50"
#mediamyth #Watergate
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One of the two is my contribution, "Watergate backstory: Tracing the origin of the heroic-journalist myth"
#mediamyth #Watergate #AllthePresidentsMen
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Read two free articles from International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 20.3, Special Issue: ‘50 Years of Nixon’s Fall After Watergate’.
📖 Explore the full special issue
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Tracing the origins of #Watergate's "heroic-journalist" myth, a myth propelled by a popular motion picture released 50 years ago next week.
#mediamyth #AllthePresidentsMen #openaccess
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Flashback: 50 years ago this month, the film version of "All the President's Men" was released in U.S. theaters.
How the movie helped solidify the "heroic-journalist" #mediamyth that has become the dominant popular narrative of the #Watergate scandal.
cc: @jackshafer
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Among the reasons this hoary tale about #Cronkite is a towering #mediamyth:
(1) Cronkite said nothing about Vietnam that hadn't been said by leading journalists many times before. By early 1968, "stalemate" was a decidedly unoriginal — and a fairly conventional — way of characterizing the war effort.
(2) LBJ did not see the Cronkite program when it aired #OTD in 1968. He was at a black-tie birthday party in Texas at the time and it is unclear whether, or when, he watched it afterward on videotape.
The presumed impact of the presumptive "Cronkite Moment" lies in its supposedly sudden, unexpected, and profound effect on the president: Such an effect likely would have been absent, or sharply diluted, had LBJ seen the program on videotape at some later date.
(3) Cronkite's remarks #OTD in 1968 were decidedly more temperate than other contemporaneous media assessments about the Vietnam War. Four days before Cronkite’s program, for example, the Wall Street Journal @wsj said in an editorial that the U.S. war effort in Vietnam "may be doomed" and that "everyone had better be prepared for the bitter taste of defeat beyond America’s power to prevent."
Not long after Cronikte’s report, Frank McGee of @NBCNews declared the war was being lost if judged by the Johnson administration’s definition.
Not stalemated.
Lost.
@CBSNews @CBS @BeschlossDC @jackshafer @BenMullin
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Tonight 1968, on CBS News special, Walter Cronkite declared that a Vietnam trip had shown him LBJ administration was wrong-- in fact, the war was in "stalemate" and U.S. should bargain for peace. LBJ reputedly reacted by saying if he'd lost Cronkite, he'd lost middle America.
The ‘Cronkite Moment’ of 1968: Remembering why it’s a towering #mediamyth
@CBSNews @CBS
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Flashback: Anniversary of a towering #mediamyth:
Why the quote "you furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war" is surely apocryphal
@quoteresearch @jackshafer
@Hearst #Cuba
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The "panic broadcast" that wasn't: #OTD in 1938, the radio dramatization of "The War of the Worlds" aired on @CBSradio.
The enduring #mediamyth claims the program set off widespread #panic and mass hysteria on the eve of Halloween, 87 years ago.
➡️It did nothing of the sort.
#OrsonWelles #fakenews
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Flashback: seen today at commentary section of @AlterNet:
➡️"Woodward and Bernstein didn’t bring down Nixon – but the myth that they did lives on"
#mediamyth #watergate #heroicjournalist @ConversationUS @BenMullin
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Uh, not so pivotal, actually. #Murrow was quite late in taking on Joe McCarthy:
"Murrow’s reporting played a pivotal role in bringing down Senator Joseph McCarthy" ~ @TheAtlantic
#mediamyth @CBSNews @jackshafer
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The Obamas spent a decade selling Michelle as American royalty. One photo dump later, turns out she’s just Mike from the block.
#MikeObama #MaskOff #MediaMyth
Murrow was no white knight of #journalism, and he was hardly above the poltical fray, hardly impartial (having privately counseled #Dem prexy candidate Adlai Stevenson in 1956 on speaking to the TV camera).
#mediamyth flashback to 2010
https://t.co/CnDdlz4vwM
The myth of Edward R. Murrow’s TV confrontation with Sen. Joseph McCarthy: On the day of @cnn’s live presentation of George Clooney’s Broadway version of “Good Night and Good Luck,” recalling this piece from a million years ago. https://t.co/24K9NcwDGA
Revisiting the first televised presidential #debate betwteen major party candidates — and the improbable TV/radio audience divide
#mediamyth
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Revisiting the first televised presidential #debate — and its improbable TV/radio audience "split"
#mediamyth
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#OTD 50 years ago, Nixon quits the presidency.
And no, newspaper reporting did force him to resign
#mediamyth
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Why the "heroic-journalist" #mediamyth still defines the #Watergate scandal, 50 years after Nixon's resignation
https://t.co/k2E2LHRYBG
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