Some just-ain't-so stories

Remember how William Randolph Hearst started a war with one terse telegram? Or how Edward R. Murrow ended McCarthyism with one broadcast? Both of those famous stories and others are myths, Mike Feinsilber writes in a post about American University journalism professor and myth-debunker W. Joseph Campbell, who Feinsilber says has "carved out a niche as the guy who tracks down things everyone knows to be true and proves that everyone’s wrong. He is a dedicated debunker."

July 23, 2014

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