Ukraine

When the press reports mostly what the government wants that leads to the problem of the people not getting the whole story which is bad but it becomes much worse when it happens during war. One of the main things government learned from the Vietnam War was that public knowledge of what is going on can hurt the war effort if things are going bad. Since that time the government changed strategies. In the subsequent wars correspondents were embedded with the troops which means they were sent where the government wanted them to go. This is now going on in Ukraine so the reporting is basically what the government wants to report which is just another name for propaganda. The rule should be as is always the case with government to be skeptical of any government information.