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From 1964 to 1972 the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the
War.
Through out the course of this war there developed the greatest
Now-a-days most of us take for granted the fact that our governments
did what was in the best interest for the people. The Vietnam War
policy. People’s eyes opened when they saw images of the atrocities
called the Pentagon Papers were released into the public, where
creating a new front in the war – the public interest front, where
governments have to make sure the public agrees with their actions,
going on in, what was called, ‘teach-ins’. The first of these was held in
marines to Danang.
What the media tried to do for the masses was to try and take the
reality of war into people’s living room’s. What affected the masses
program started portraying the colonials as the Viet Cong and the
could move around with more freedom. But this was not the problem;
network TV policies that were aimed against airing footage that might
that got to the public was a watered down version of what was
some of the information was, as Miss Gellhorn said when she tried to
was told that they were too tough for American reader.”
It is widely thought that Vietnam had been the "living room war", an
media that turned the public against the war; it was the public,