Media manipulation in history : The example of COVENTRY

During World War II, the allies found out the enigma code, a code used by the germans to communicate about their future actions.
But the fact that the allies knew this code had to be protected by any ways, even if it dealed with hundreds of people!
Indeed, Winston Churchill allegedly refused to evacuate cities like Coventry because it would have revealed to the Germans that their codes were no longer secure.
To protect this secret, of course no media was informed about that, because if any journalist had revealed that, maybe it would have changed history ( we know today that
the sacrifice of Coventry permitted the Normandy landings, because the Germans didn't know that the allies knew the codes, the allies thus knew what the Germans planned to do!)
Churchill at the time told his cabinet, in a slightly different context: "The truth is so precious that it must be protected by a bodyguard of lies."


I think this example is good to show that the media manipulation could be found everywhere even during the war!