In Europe headlines announced the release of the Munich hostages, and in Israel people went to bed thinking that they had been saved. Millions of Americans who watched early-evening TV news programs on Tuesday came away with the impression that the athletes had been rescued. In a world of instantaneous communications, everyone knows the news—even when it is false. Rarely in recent years has a single news event been so misreported to so many people as the murders in Munich.
Still, it is difficult to put much of the blame on newsmen. Indeed many...
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