BackStory

The following audio clip is excerpted from the BackStory episode “Just the Facts?: Partisanship & the Press.”  You can listen to the entire episode here.

Matthew Goodman tells the story of an elaborate hoax involving “lunar man-bats” in the early days of the penny press.

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Excerpted from: Just the Facts?: Partisanship & the Press

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