Why Can’t Old Media Get History Right Part 2: Boston Herald Muffs Rev War

Publius Forum ^ | 04/20/10 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

Last week I posted a deconstruction of the muffed WWII history as penned by NPR commentator Cokie Roberts. Today I have another example of muddled history in the Old Media. This one is misconstrued Revolutionary War history as published by the Boston Herald. Hard to believe that the Boston Herald, a paper that sits in the cradle of the Revolutionary War, can get Revolutionary War history wrong but such is the degraded state of the Old Media.

In Lexington, Massachusetts on April 19, 2010, reenactors of the Rev War celebrated the 235th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington. The Boston Herald reported on the event later that morning and made a mash of its allusions to history...

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[Mobile Vulgus]

The Old Media can't even get the simplest bits of American history right.

[EagleUSA]

The Old Media can’t even get the simplest bits of American history right.
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They do not want to — they are too busy RE-WRITING American history for the youth of America.

[Plutarch]

Whether the shot heard round the world was discharged at Lexington or Concord is a point more literary than historical, since the authority cited is a poem.

There are plenty of references to the Lexington shot being heard round the world, as especially it preceded Concord, and it remained uncertain which side fired first.

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

>Whether the shot heard round the world was discharged at Lexington or Concord is a point more literary than historical, since the authority cited is a poem.

There are plenty of references to the Lexington shot being heard round the world, as especially it preceded Concord, and it remained uncertain which side fired first.

Respectfully disagree.

The Americans didn't put up a fight against the British at Lexington. No stand was made. It was a rout and Lexington was not unique in this way. Months earlier, the British marched to Salem and burned gunpowder and weapons the colonials had stored there. The mission was the same for the Brits going to Lexington and Concord. Find and destroy any weapons cached by the colonials and round of any leaders they might find (Hancock in particular).

Only at Concord did the Americans stand and fight. This was the true start of the war and a turning point in history where Americans took the battle to the British. Concord is correctly identified as where the shot heard round the world was fired.

[SunkenCiv]

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