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How would D-Day be covered by today's press?

During the planning stage, the Capital Times would run a headline, Beach Landing Would Cause Turbidity, Disturb Submerged Vegetation;

During staging, the Wisconsin State Journal would editorialize:

We support General Eisenhower's concept for confronting the Nazis on the European Continent. Nazis, by all accounts, have not practiced Fair Trade with either the Polish or the French. However, the Nazis do have a jobs program and
that should count for something.

During deployment, WISC TV-3's Editorial Director Neil Heinen would air the following cutting edge commentary;

The best military in the world means the best military in the world for everybody. By waving goodbye to the young men from the shores of Dover, the departing Americans can look back with an eye to the future. And it also raises some questions for those left behind. We should not lose sight of those questions, unless we should lose sight of ourselves.

En route, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Spivak and Bice would speculate;

General Eisenhower views the success at Normandy his path to the White House. A flak for General Douglas MacArthur is spinning that New Hampshire primary voters would never vote for a rube from Abilene, Kansas.

Upon landing, the Isthmus would announce;
Paratroopers Miss Their Landing Zones, War is Not the Answer

As bullets were exchanged, WisPolitics would run mindless quotes;
This is what we get payed for: Sergeant Blood and Guts
We fight 'em one pill box at a time: Captain Courageous
Hi Mom: Private Newbie

And as Allied forces won control of the beaches, the cumulative reaction from the Wisconsin Capitol press room wound be;
Didn't Art Srb already cover this story? Go away.