[Homer_J_Simpson]

Thanks for providing the back story on today’s article. I think there will be a follow-up article about the hapless teletype operator in the coming days, but I don’t remember exactly when.

[PeterPrinciple]

There was a reference that fewer heard the false D Day broadcast than Orsen Wells War of the World in 1938. Did not know that our perception of the panic of the Orsen Wells broadcast was an attempt by the printed media to discredit the radio media:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/history/2013/10/orson_welles_war_of_the_worlds_panic_myth_the_infamous_radio_broadcast_did.html

[PeterPrinciple]

A little background on the technology that was part of the false report:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioteletype

[AU72]

There’s a current article in Atlantic about the AP reporter who posted the story of the Nazi surrender in Rheims 12 hours before an embargo expired and caught unshirted hell for it.