What role the media played in Vietnam war?

Answer 1

Today's (or recently) anchormen, like Dan Rather, were at the time young war correspondents accompanying US Infantrymen in the field, during the war. Firefights were covered with moving film and sound. These were later transmitted to the living rooms of people through out the United States. Usually during the Huntley, Brinkley Reports, Putnam News, and Walter Cronkite Reports. On some occasions, the war correspondents were seen to be "hit", and the camera kept rolling, the TV anchormen just let the "coverage continue"; then ending with a, "...close call for Dan over there, hope he's alright...now onto our local news..." For US Aircraft being shot down; Those were normally black & white footage, and "graciously" given to US News Coverage teams, by the North Vietnamese Government (termed "Hanoi Release's"), which were also aired on the same TV networks.

Answer 2

The Vietnam War was the FIRST war in which nearly EVERY US household had a TV; in most cases, a color TV. News Reporters, fully knowledgeable of this fact, sent bloody images into every US living room. The consequences of such actions resulted in President Reagan's media blackout during his Operation Urgent Fury during the 1983 Grenada invasion. Then his former (Vice) President Bush's (Sr.) restrictive news coverage during Operation Desert Storm, commencing on 15 January 1991.

Answer 3

The media gave the idea that the US was losing the Vietnam war horrifically to the US public, and because the US is a country "of the people" the American government was forced by its people to move out of Vietnam before a victory, that was very near, was achieved. The USA didn't lose the Vietnam war but it did not win it either, it went into the country with one main mission to protect SV from communism which it accomplished up to the point of its removal as US and SV forces were pushing the NV forces back deep into NV (by this time the Vietcong was beaten down into a force that was unable to wage war by the Americans)

Answer 4

Pictures are worth a thousand words; the media fuelled the flames of discontent.

Answer 5

they showed everything thata was happening... i.e U.S troops being killed and it started to make US citizens anti-war

Answer 6

The US media brought death, in living color, into every American living room.