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W. Joseph Campbell ’74 published the second edition of his book Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism (University of California Press, 2016). The new edition covers the first Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960 and the “Napalm Girl” photo from the later years of the Vietnam War. Campbell is a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and is a full-time tenured professor in American University’s School of Communication.