The latter is one of my favorite movies. But of course it was made long after the War, and just because they made the Bentley character self-aware doesn't mean the actual journalists at the time were.
Remember the Maine. Yellow Journalism. Hell, Hearst. They knew. As long as there have been printing presses, there has been propaganda journalists trying to sell a war and sell some papers at the same time.
The latter is one of my favorite movies. But of course it was made long after the War, and just because they made the Bentley character self-aware doesn't mean the actual journalists at the time were.
Remember the Maine. Yellow Journalism. Hell, Hearst. They knew. As long as there have been printing presses, there has been propaganda journalists trying to sell a war and sell some papers at the same time.
look up Thomas Jefferson's quotes on the press to see how old the tale is