War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.
Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.
Bruce Jackson The Peace Bridge Chronicles.
Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.
War is an abstraction.
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
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