Don't be silly, Dave. That report about D-Day sounds like one you would have heard in Berlin at the time to me.

I've seen the Allied propaganda from that time (in print). It was melodramatic, bombastic, exaggerated, inaccurate, and self-serving (just like the German and Japanese propaganda)...but the Allies were winning, which helped, didn't it?

Today's American media has, on the whole, been an almost completely compliant cheerleader for the USA's War in Iraq in the early stages, and they continue to be so most of the time now. It is the general public that is losing heart, because they can plainly see that Iraq is turning into an insoluble nightmare, a probable civil war, with no forseeable end in sight. Besides, they were blatantly lied to about WMD. Remember?