News Coverage of U.S. Mothers of Soldiers During the Vietnam Warmaternal archetypesmothers of soldierspress coverageSpartan motherThetisVietnam WarThe press of World Wars I and II depicted patriotic mothers as Spartan-like in their support of the nation's war effort. During the Vietnam War, ...
War, Media, and Memory: American Television News Coverage of the Vietnam WarBrock J. Vaughan
Bombarded by horrific images of the war on their televisions, Americans on the home front turned against the war as well: In October 1967, some 35,000 demonstrators staged a massiveVietnam War protestoutside thePentagon. Opponents of the war argued that civilians, not enemy combatants, were t...
( 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. Volume 28, issue 4. 1984. http://www.tandfonline.com...
Third, in 1971 the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study on the history of the war, commissioned in 1967, was leaked to theNew York Timesby military analyst Daniel Ellsberg. The papers revealed that the public had been misled about the war’s progress. The resulting news coverage inspired Tex...
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While the attitudes of the mainstream are important, they aren’t as commanding as they were in the time of the Vietnam War — in the time when the nation watched the evening news with total belief and hung on every word from Walter Cronkite. ...
“War is a madhouse” It’s Independence Day in America, so it seems like a good day to declare our independence from the insanity of war. Sadly, since the presidency of George W. Bush if not before, it’s become routine for U.S. commanders-in-chief to boast of having the world’...
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 ...
The image, which won a Pulitzer Prize for photographer Eddie Adams, caused many Americans to openly question the morality of the war. The president and First Lady Ladybird Johnson are watching coverage of the anti-war protests outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago in this ...