Media Coverage: The Vietnam War was one of the first wars extensively covered by the media. Graphic images and reports of the war’s brutality and civilian casualties contributed to public disillusionment and anti-war sentiment. Draft Resistance: The draft, which required young men to serve in ...
War, Media, and Memory: American Television News Coverage of the Vietnam WarBrock J. Vaughan
Teanek: “Theoretically, you’re right, but in practice what you’re saying is very silly. It’s like convincing yourself—as I bet you do—that when you describe people dying in war you’re helping to abolish war. On the contrary. The more you see people who’ve been killed in war...
Distortion of reality and conflicting effects From the 1968 Tet Offensive on, the presence of the American media’s selectivity bias must be observed to adequately assess the extent of impact the media’s coverage had on the war’s development. After Tet, the frequency at which news outlets te...
President Johnson‘s weakened domestic support for his open-ended commitment to Vietnam was undermined by media coverage, making an overall victory in Vietnam unlikely. It also signaled that the United States would not return to Southeast Asia as a permanent fixture. Ultimately, the war in Vi...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war are considered at a country-specific level. The market is updated twice a year. In some cases, the data is updated on an ad hoc basis (e.g., when new, relevant data has been released or significant changes within the ...
The Vietnam War is the greatest example of the media's mercurial role in U.S. foreign policy. The diverse and uncensored media coverage of the Vietnam War forever changed U.S. foreign policy during wartime. The emergence of television as a viable source of information and the transmission ...
T his chapter will illustrate film as a medium that, when used effectively, can analyze and criticize war in a manner that reacts against dominant discourses that are the product of mass media coverage or the overly simplistic representations of traditional war films. The prime focus will be on...
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic MediaPatterson, O. ( 1984 ). An analysis of television coverage of the Vietnam War. Journal of Broadcasting , 28 , 397–404. [Taylor & Francis Online]Patterson, Oscar, "An Analysis of Television Coverage of the Vietnam War". Journal of Broadcasting. ...
Military information officers sought to manage media coverage by emphasizing stories that portrayed progress in the war. Over time, this policy damaged the public trust in official pronouncements. As the media's coverage of the war and that of the Pentagon diverged, a so-called credibility gap ...