The media has always had its hand in the war effort. It was during World War I that mass media began using propaganda to support the war effort. The media’s reporting of breaking news during WWI came from what news the government supplied them with. Media outlets still had credibility with American citizens and sought to find the “real truth” behind these government releases. This was the first US war that the mass media had access to and thus the government was wary of so much publicity so the “media became skeptical of ‘canned’ government information releases that reflected the administration's perspective and were provided as news” (Murphy). Because of this distrust, the government created the Committee on Public information, headed by newspaperman, George Creel (Murphy). This organizat