Santayana said it: Those who don’t remember history, yada, yada, yada.
It almost turned Dada-esque over the weekend, when a Syrian television editor mistook a “history-as-it-happened” Twitter feed for actual events.
One reason to learn history, I tell students, is so that you cannot be jived by politicians and others who wish to persuade you falsely. Add to that: So you won’t be suckered by false news reports when you’re at the editor’s desk.
I wonder how many hoaxes get started this way?
Is that today’s newspaper? Toronto Daily Star, June 29, 1914. Not today’s edition.
Posted by Ed Darrell 
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