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This book by Edward Jay Epstein, the author of News From Nowhere, explores the myths, fables, and other inventions of American Journalism. The project began forty-five years ago when William Shawn, the legendary editor of the New Yorker, asked him to investigate media reports that the US government had executing 28 members of the Black Panther party. After Epstein had demonstrated that the story was a myth of the press- and the list of the 28 deaths was an invention of a lawyer for the Black Panther party the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times issued editorial apologies for their stories perpetuating the myth. In EXTRA, read about the inventions of journalism, including Deep Throat, Bin Laden's fortress at Tora Bora, and the heroin epidemic of the 1960s. In EXTRA, read about for the tabloids subsumed the mainstream press. In EXTRA, read about how television became news from nowhere.

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Edward Jay Epstein is the author of 15 books, eight of which have been excerpted in the New Yorker, Atlantic, and Sunday Times of London. He received his PhD from Harvard after receiving his master's degree in government from Cornell. His master's thesis on the search for political truth became the best-selling book Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth.. His doctoral dissertation on television news was published as News From Nowhere. He is the recipient of numerous foundation grants and awards, including the prestigious Financial Times/ Booz Allen prize for both best biography and best business book for Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer.

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