Journalist’s Trade
July 6, 2012
Getting it Wrong
A sampling of mistakes, fabrications and manipulations.
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SOURCES: “Getting It Wrong” by W. Joseph Campbell; “Covering America” by Christopher Daly; “Poisoning the Press” by Mark Feldstein; “Journalism’s Roving Eye” by John Maxwell Hamilton; “Deadline Every Minute” by Joe Alex Morris, Jr.; “Regret the Error” by Craig Silverman.