Editorials – W. Joseph Campbell

Afghanistan is ‘Biden’s Katrina’? Afghanistan is dramatically worse

(This essay was first posted at the Media Myth Alert blog on August 27, 2021.) USA Today suggested in an editorial the other day that the chaos accompanying Joe Biden’s botched and precipitous withdrawal of U.S. military personnel could turn into a kind of Hurricane Katrina for the president. The reference was to the damage […]

Getting it right about a legendary newspaper editorial

(This essay was first posted at Media Myth Alert blog on 21 December 2020.) The timeless paean to childhood and the Christmas spirit, published in 1897 in the old New York Sun, long ago became the single best-known, most-reprinted editorial in American journalism. It also is a myth-distorted artifact, as suggested by errant media descriptions […]