(WR) How to Make a Myth

The story of the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese, supposedly witnessed by 38 people who did nothing to help, turns out to be a durable and influential bit of mythmaking by an overwrought journalist. Even though it was, to put it generously, factually challenged, The story nonetheless did have some useful consequences -- we might say that some aspects of it are true as process though false as event.  http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2014/03/10/140310crbo_books_lemann