- April 4 NCAS Lecture: You Mean They're Not True? Busting media myths, Joseph Campbell, PhD Professor, School of Communication
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NCAS Public Lecture Series
You Mean They're Not True?
Busting media myths Joseph Campbell, PhD
Professor, School of Communication
American University
Saturday, April 4, 1:30pm - 4:00pm
Bethesda Regional Library
7400 Arlington Road
Bethesda, MD [map] [directions]
(Bethesda Metro station)
FREE admission – Everyone welcome, members and non-members
In this talk, communications professor, author, and blogger W. Joseph Campbell debunks prominent media-driven myths – those well-known stories about and/or by the news media that are widely believed and often retold but which, under scrutiny, dissolve as apocryphal or wildly exaggerated.These myths include the hero-journalist interpretation of Watergate, the famous "Cronkite Moment" of 1968, and the myth of superlative reporting in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, all of which are addressed in Campbell's book, Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism (University of California Press, 2010).
Getting It Wrong won the Society of Professional Journalists' 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Award for "Research about Journalism."
http://academic2.american.edu/
W. Joseph Campbell is a tenured full professor in the School of Communication at American University. He joined the University's faculty in 1997 after more than 20 years as a newspaper and wire service journalist.
Refreshments and socializing after the talk.
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Drinking Skeptically in MD and VA (New Start Time)!
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