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How The Media Got It Wrong

A lunchtime sit-down between the police commissioner and a New York Times editor quickly changed Kitty Genovese's case. The newspaper ran a story that years later, the Times corrected saying many facts in the report were not true. But the impact of that original article still shapes public perception. We talk to journalist Diane Dimond about where the media went wrong in the Genovese case.

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