There is a Youtube series called The Great War where they are performing news casts as if the events had just happened (only 100 years later).

The size of the armies was huge and the loss of life was astounding. Which is what you get when attrition is the common strategy employed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfKUd8bvQfc

At this point the US is just getting upset over 128 citizens being killed on the RMS Lusitania when it was sunk during a period of unrestricted submarine warfare. Our entry into the war as an Associated Power won't take place until 6 April 1917.