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Media Myths and the Stories that Spawned Them

Local author W. Joseph Campbell will discuss his latest book during a  Smithsonian Resident Associate Program lecture at the S. Dillon Ripley Center in Washington, D.C.

Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism reviews 10 media myths and how they began and have been carried on throughout history.

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