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Arrogance: WaPo won’t correct dubious claim about Nixon ‘secret plan’ for Vietnam 13 Aug 2013 | 05:44 pm
Arrogant Finally, after more than 2½ weeks, the Washington Post’s “reader representative” replied to my email pointing to a dubious claim in the newspaper’s front-page obituary last month about journ...
WaPo, Bezos, and owning up to errors ‘quickly and completely’ 6 Aug 2013 | 04:02 pm
Yesterday’s stunning news that billionaire Jeff Bezos is buying the Washington Post for $250 million came with a sidebar of sorts — his smoothly written and reassuring letter to the newspaper’s employ...
Correction or clarification needed in WaPo reference to Nixon’s ‘secret plan’ on Vietnam 27 Jul 2013 | 10:57 pm
Portion of WaPo’s front-page obit about Thomas The Washington Post needs to correct or clarify a questionable claim in its recent glowing obituary about journalist Helen Thomas. The obituary stated ...
WaPo, Helen Thomas, and Nixon’s ‘secret plan’ 21 Jul 2013 | 08:55 pm
Today’s Washington Post carries a lengthy obituary about Helen Thomas, lauding the 92-year-old former White House reporter who died yesterday for her “unparalleled experience covering the presidency.”...
The Nixon tapes: A pivotal Watergate story that WaPo missed 14 Jul 2013 | 05:45 pm
Forty years ago this week, Alexander Butterfield told a U.S. Senate select committee investigating the Watergate scandal that President Richard Nixon had installed a secret audiotaping system in his o...
Vomit humor and scandal: Inane ‘Drunk History’ TV show promotes Watergate media myth 8 Jul 2013 | 05:10 pm
Drunk History, a new cable TV show based on the inane premise that history is entertaining when told by inebriated narrators, isn’t meant to be taken seriously. Obviously. Drunk History, which debu...
Mistaking conspiracy for sloppy history in Hearst’s ‘vow’ to ‘furnish the war’ 30 Jun 2013 | 12:31 am
The media myth of William Randolph Hearst’s vow to “furnish the war” with Spain has proved irresistible in a number of ways. Hearst, activist publisher The vow has been invoked as evidence of the sk...
Cronkite report on Vietnam was ‘most influential TV show ever’? 18 Jun 2013 | 07:41 pm
In the supposed reactions to Cronkite's report about Vietnam lurks one the most popular and persistent myths in American journalism
‘Furnish the war’ media myth infiltrates NPR tribute to Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Scoop’ 16 Jun 2013 | 08:07 pm
"Furnish the war" is a tale too tempting not to be pressed into the service of emphasis.
‘Strategy for peace’ and blocking the schoolhouse door: Recalling a crowded week in June 1963 6 Jun 2013 | 02:56 pm
Few weeks, arguably, have been as crowded with major and memorable news events as that of June 9-15, 1963.
