Dates back at least as far as Cronkite.
When Cronkite said that we had lost the Tet offensive. We had beaten them badly, a real thrashing. They had nothing left.
Definitely Cronkite but who won a pulitzer that was retracted by the NY Times for fake news? Walter Duranty. Remember Cronkite’s “death talley” during Viet Nam? Made you think soldiers were numbers, not humans, fathers, brothers, husbands, friends; absolutely shameful on the part of Cronkite.