History is to some extent in the eye of the beholder. Even these days, the media pick what they think are the most interesting stories to air or print. And they can play up or down the significance of what they do air by camera shenanigans and commentary or as far as newspapers, print a story on the first page or bury it in the middle of "trivialities." And journalists can bias what they say by diction and by what they emphasize. (Consider "the car hit the telephone pole" versus "the car rammed into the telephone pole....)

I saw an article one time about the limits of archeology. It depicted future archeologists uncovering a 20th century house and trying to draw conclusions. A TV set was viewed by them as a likely god, since it had all the seats facing it. (Well, THAT might have some truth to it.) Stoppers in bathrooms were perceived as likely earrings, etc. Speaking of guff!

I bought a book recently called "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James W. Loewen. He examined school history books and noted all sorts of discrepancies and misleading information, as well as just complete "revision" or omissions. What we learned about history in school might have plain been wrong in some cases! Scary. Guff, again?