A NON-POLITICAL Fake News Story FOR KIDS: EXAMPLE OF 1ST AMENDMENT FREE PRESS ISSUES Do you believe everything you read in the newspaper? Early in August 1937, a News flash came: a sea monster had been spotted lurking off the shore of Nantucket Island.
As eyewitness account piled up, newspaper stories of the sea monster spre.
Eyewitnesses swore this wasn\'t a whale, but some new, fearsome creature.
Historically, the Massachusetts island had served as port for whaling ships.
A NON-POLITICAL Fake News Story FOR KIDS: EXAMPLE OF 1ST AMENDMENT FREE PRESS ISSUES Do you believe everything you read in the newspaper? Early in August 1937, a News flash came: a sea monster had been spotted lurking off the shore of Nantucket Island