I read a letter from a Confederate Soldier to his wife. This would have been around 1863.
He mentioned to her that he had read a Richmond newspaper and they were giving credit to Virginia troops for winning some unknown skirmish.
He said in fact it was the Florida companies which had won the battle.
I think Alexander the great took reporters along with him to send news back to Macedonia and Greece. Don’t know if they made stuff up tho.
I bet they did. There is nothing new under the sun. We are not smarter, nor dumber than the people that stumbled out of the garden of Eden.