I’ve been more sensitive lately to journalists recounting history inaccurately.

For instance, I just saw this claim about WWI.

For the first time in human history, warring sides could see each other from above and plan their attack.

NOPE.

Balloons had been used extensively in military operations starting in the US Civil War, sixty years prior. Fixed-wing aircraft made that easier, but it was nothing new.

That took me ten seconds on Wikipedia (though I already knew most of it). Why can’t journalists do this?