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This 4 page paper discusses the difference in public support for WW2 and Vietnam, and some of the reasons for the difference. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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same way about Vietnam. This paper explores possible reasons for the difference in public opinion about the two wars. Discussion One of the most persuasive theories to explain the difference
is the change in media coverage in the 20 years between the end of the Second World War and the start of serious American involvement in Vietnam. Technology improved greatly,
and media coverage "evolved from a sole emphasis on print to more complex concentrations on photography and eventually ... video" (Lane, 1998). This was a substantial factor in the public
reaction to the conflicts. During World War II, "most Americans received their information about the war from newspaper reports and radio broadcasts. They were allowed to form their image of
war in their own minds" (Lane, 1998). Television was in its infancy and few people had sets; certainly they were not watching the six oclock news every night for the
latest war news. Thus, they did not actually see the "vivid imagery of battle and carnage of the conflict" (Lane, 1998). The pictures that did come back were stills, not
movies or video, and they were "relatively sterile portrayals of ... war" (Lane, 1998). In addition, World War II is still largely considered to be a "good war," or a
"just war" or a "war that had to be fought," given the aggression of both Germany and Japan, and the extermination of millions of European Jews, gypsies, intellectuals, homosexuals and
others in the death camps. While the issue of whether or not the Second World War was in fact a "good war" is being hotly debated, at the time there
seemed to be little or no doubt at the time that it was the right thing to do. In addition, the media portrayed the war "in a positive and heroic
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