The Medium is the Massage…screens are much more effective at distorting truth versus seeing and hearing the event in person, which is a rarer and rarer possibility.
Enter the real-world version of Philip K Richard’s ‘The Penultimate Truth’ 
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The story is set in a future where the bulk of humanity is kept in large underground shelters. The people are told that World War III is being fought above them, when in reality the war ended years ago
The government and war engine remains on the surface; the elite “Yance-men”. Their president, Talbot Yancy, delivers inspirational speeches to the tankers, motivating them to increase their production of leadies and win the war. The war does eventually end. However, the Yance-men design a conspiracy to maintain the wealth of the Earth for themselves. Yancy continues to describe devastation in televised speeches. The tankers continue to produce leadies.
Talbot Yancy is actually a computer generated simulacrum. The Yance-men program him from the “Agency” in New York. They live in immense villas on private parks, called “demesnes”. The leadies are actually used by the Yance-men as personal servants and to maintain their estates. The Agency is run by the most vicious and greedy Yance-man, Stanton Brose, who is kept alive by pre-war artificial organs which he hoards.
PKD’s writing was definitely a time traveler experience. Are there really wars going on now?
… again for those interested in that very topic see The Gulf War Did Not Take Place by Jean Baudrillard
No more natural weatherl nor history, in Ametika.
Yep, done read that, also witnessed the event via television broadcasts in the 1991 when I did watch television.