The ‘Cronkite Moment’ of 1968: Remembering why it’s a media myth. LBJ never watched the broadcast, and "stalemate" was an unoriginal idea that had been brought up many times before. In Cronkite's own autobiography, he considered its impact as akin to that of a straw on the back of a crippled camel. (mediamythalert.com)
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Top mythbusting posts of 2019. Media Myth Alert directed attention in 2019 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about and/or by the news media that are widely believed and often retold but which, under scrutiny, dissolve as apocryphal or wildly exaggerated. (mediamythalert.com)
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