The insidious nature of prominent media myths is evident in how casually they are invoked, as if their veracity is beyond question.
These blithe, passing references in news articles and commentary seldom are accompanied by much context or explanation. And their appearance signals how deeply embedded some media myths have become.
Two recent cases serve to illustrate this tendency.
Musings in the New York Times
One example appeared last week in an entertaining if overlong New York Timesarticle that mused about the identity of an elusive and anonymous Instagram user whose handle is rg_bunny1. Over the recent months, user rg_bunny1 has unleashed what the Times called “a daily torrent of quirky, particular images that, taken together, speak to an aesthetic that delights, confounds, fixates and infuriates in equal measures.”
What most interests Media Myth Alertwas the article’s passing reference to Carl Bernstein, one of the Washington…
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