Media And The Military
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During the Vietnam War the media was left unchecked and brought the
wartime images of death and carnage into America's living room. These
images served as morale killers and eventually turned much of the public
against its own government. During the Gulf War on the other hand, the
military filter ....
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.... and “by the
mid 1960's television had become the most important source for news for
most of the American public, and beyond that, perhaps, the most powerful
single influence on the public.” (Hallin 106) So people trusted what
reporters like Walter Cronkite were telling them. They believed it when
NBC journalists told them things like, “ the Marines are so bogged down in
Hue that nobody will predict when the battle would end…more than 500
marines have been wounded and over 100 dead ....
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