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A 15 page paper explaining the media's role in the way the Vietnam war was perceived. The writer explains how different types of media influenced public opinion in both the USA and Canada. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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likely never be completely bridged. Scholars have paid increasing attention to the role of media in Vietnam in recent years (Folkerts, 1991). Richard Nixon, in the writing of his
memoirs, laid blame on the press for creating what he called a "serious demoralization of the home front, raising the question of whether America would ever again be able
to fight an enemy abroad with unity and strength of purpose at home"(Folkerts 4). While some media members dispute and take great offense to assertions of this sort, others allow
that they were to blame (Beidler 15-6). At a media conference on "What the American Press Learned from the Vietnam War," which was held in commemoration of the 20th anniversary
of the end of the Vietnam War, former CBS correspondent Murray Fromson said that he still frequently cries as he vividly recalls the scenes of Vietnam. He also admitted that
at a pre-1956 press briefing, American journalists were told "off the record" by the government that the fate of the Vietnamese national election to be held in 1956, which was
required by the Geneva Accords, would be uncertain (Lovell 379). II. The Media in Vietnam Daniel C. Hallin, in the Uncensored War: The Media and Vietnam disputes the theory
that media during the 1960s and 1970s shifted toward "an oppositional relation to political authority" (68). Hallin uses as his argument a sample of newscasts between 1965 and 1973, asserting
that television coverage was quite favorable to administration policy before the Tet offensive of 1968, but that is grew significantly less favorable after that point. It is true that journalists
were more likely to be critical in the late 1960s and 1970s than they had been in early 1961 when the New York Times agreed to suppress stories of the
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