Vietnam was America's most divisive and unsuccessful foreign war.
It was also the first to be televised and the first of the modern
era fought without military censorship. From the earliest days of
the Kennedy-Johnson escalation right up to the American withdrawal,
and even today, the media's role in Vietnam has continued to be
intensely controversial. The "Uncensored War" gives a richly
detailed account of what Americans read and watched about Vietnam.
Hallin draws on the complete body of the New York Times coverage
from 1961 to 1965, a sample of hundreds of television reports from
1965-73, including television coverage filmed by the Defense
Department in the early years of the war, and interviews with many
of the journalists who reported it, to give a powerful critique of
the conventional wisdom, both conservative and liberal, about the
media and Vietnam. Far from being a consistent adversary of
government policy in Vietnam, Hallin shows, the media were closely
tied to official perspectives throughout the war, though divisions
in the government itself and contradictions in its public relations
policies caused every administration, at certain times, to lose its
ability to "manage" the news effectively. As for television, it
neither showed the "literal horror of war," nor did it play a
leading role in the collapse of support: it presented a highly
idealized picture of the war in the early years, and shifted toward
a more critical view only after public unhappiness and elite
divisions over the war were well advanced. The "Uncensored War" is
essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the
Vietnam war or the role of the media in contemporary American
politics.
A groundbreaking study of the media's influence on the Vietnam War
.Overturns the conventional notions about the media's role in
the war
.Draws directly on a huge body of newspaper and TV coverage"
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