Media myths – 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 […]

Recalling the ‘New York Times,’ Bay of Pigs suppression myth, 60 years on

(A version of this essay originally was posted at the Conversation online site on 2 April 2021.) Sixty years ago today, the New York Times is said to have muzzled itself in reporting about plans for the CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion, earning a lasting niche of dishonor in the history of American journalism. The […]