Not really, as George Orwell demonstrated - few people follow the advice of Aeschylus (see my tagline).
Well, that sort of thing tends to stick with me, and I’ll be saying, “I’ll just wait for the other shoe to drop and not believe what I hear right off the bat...”
It makes it very much harder, now, for me to just take anything the Pentagon says at face value — and especially so, when they consider “information” and “media” as part of the “tools of war”, rather than simple truth. And there has been information given to us that indicates that the military does send out disinformation, in order to help its own cause — while they gave the “proviso” that this kind of disinformation is directed overseas and not here in the U.S.
But, since we get our news from all over the world, this is not a useful distinction...