Mediate Driven Myths

In his book, getting it wrong, i lay out ten or 12 different medium myths. One is that a newspaper mogul was powerful enough to bring the country into a war otherwise would not have fought. Another has to do with walter cronkit of c b s news and his on air assessment about the war in via nam at the end of february 19 68. That too is a media driven myth. And thenthe heroic journalist myth of watergate, the country's gravest political scandal, certainly, of the twentieth century,. another example of a mediate driven myth.