OPINION — We hear a lot these days about “fake news,” but it’s not a new complaint. In fact, one wartime reporting blunder hit America like a bombshell. Here’s the story.
Mankind had never seen anything like World War I. It featured brand-new horrors such as poison gas, bombs dropped from the sky, tanks and machine guns. More than 70 million people from 32 countries fought, and 17 million died. An additional 20 million were wounded.
Folks desperately wanted the war to end. When November 1918 arrived, it seemed peace was finally within sight.
