Can you imagine Americans during WWII treating each day's events as if it were a sporting event That's exactly what's going on, and I think it is one of the great handicaps we have in fighting this particular war. The media has been treating it like a video game.
Not only that, but they have been assigning the US the role of the bad guys, the team that should be booed. I don't think that ever happened in WWII.
Thanks for all your great posts, btw.
If you go the the archives of the local library, you will find all the publications highly supportive of the war effort. A lot of news was highly filtered back then and the media understood. These days the media can only focus on the negative and how they can control American thought. If a photographer snapped a picture of a German POW with a pair of women's underwear over his head I doubt it would even get a ripple out of the press. Also I doubt a camera would have made it to the compound, as the MP's were more protective back then.
Anther nice thing about '40's publications. They didn't worship at the alter of political correctness.