Media Affects of the Vietnam War War is truly a horrific event that unfortunately occurs in our world frequently. There are a variety of ethical questions surrounding war‚ such as how much should citizens know about the fighting? When it comes to reporting the news‚ it is the goal of the network to report the news first. The benefit to this is people will turn to them first when it comes to breaking stories. However if the news is delivered based on speed and not accuracy this can be harmful
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The United States has already been in war with Vietnam for four years when Nixon took office in 1969. Already more than thirty- six thousand Americans have lost their lives only up to 1968 and the United States had a total of 475‚200 forces in Vietnam. Nixon was determined to bring America out of this problem; unlike past President Lyndon Johnson. Very early in Nixon’s presidency‚ he made the decision to order the air force to bomb Cambodian territory in order to destroy enemy sanctuaries‚ but he
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“For the first time in modern history the outcome of a war was determined not on the battlefield but on the printed page and‚ above all‚ on the television screen” -Robert Elegant Robert Elegant’s quote explains the significant role the media played in the Vietnam War. This essay will argue that the media’s effect was one dominant aspect of why the United States lost the war in Vietnam. Looking in detail at the heavily televised ‘Tet Offensive’‚ this essay will suggest that this series of battles
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Winston Churchill. Ideally‚ the media has a responsibility of making sure that it does not happen. The media plays a crucial role in covering the war in the most objective‚ bias-free and truthful manner‚ even if negative stories have to be reported. In this essay‚ the comparison of media coverage between the Vietnam War and Gulf War II has four areas to cover‚ which are the freedom of correspondents‚ embedding‚ the reliability and quality of the coverage. The media also plays the role of a "watchdog"
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Term 3 Paper: The Media and Vietnam War The Vietnam War was a war of mass destruction‚ leaving Vietnam to become bitterly divided and claiming the many lives of Vietnamese civilians as well as American soldiers. Out of all the wars in American history‚ the Vietnam War was the first war to be broadly televised and covered by the media. It came to be known as the first “Television War”. Journalists began to pour into Vietnam from all over the nation‚ to cover the lives of the American Soldiers as
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Conflict media policy is seen as a series of rules‚ regulations or even methods of control which are used for the media during a conflict. Conflict media policy has changed drastically since the Vietnam War and has had many different affects upon reporters and subsequently the public back at home. This work seeks to look at how conflict media policy has changed‚ focusing on the effects it has had on reporters and their work whilst also referring to the changes in public perception of a conflict as
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The War in Vietnam is on event had many events which has impacted our history ever since the Vietnamese got independence from the French. The purpose of this essay is to explain how the Vietnam War led to many effects. The main reason why the Vietnam War occurred is because the Vietnamese wanted independence from the French. At first Vietnam was controlled by the afranch. Then‚ Ho Chi Minh fought the French and won. Then the Vietnam split into two countries: North Vietnam and South Vietnam
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The Vietnam War is truly one of the most unique wars ever fought by the Unites States of by any country. It was never officially declared a war (Knowll‚ 3). It had no official beginning nor an official end. It was fought over 10‚000 miles away in a virtually unknown country. The enemy and the allies looked exactly the alike‚ and may by day be a friend but by night become an enemy (Aaseng 113). It matched the tried and true tactics of World War Two against a hide‚ run‚ and shoot technique known as
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Vietnam was the first war that issued full freedom to the press‚ allowing media to cover the war as they saw it. Without censorship‚ appalling images enabled the public to see war‚ as they never had before. Many people believe that it was the media that sparked the lack of support for the war. The Tet Offensive‚ for example‚ would become one of the most controversial and climactic events in which the media played a role. Up to that point‚ the media had portrayed the U.S. as winning the war. When
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Side of the Vietnam War The Positive Side of the Vietnam War War is a tough gritty world that describes the destruction of people and countries in the name of nationalism; it is difficult to justify war and give a positive outcome when shown the disaster it causes. The Vietnam War was an extremely difficult war and is widely seen as a catastrophe by the world‚ even with that being the case there is still some positives that have been extracted from the situation. The Vietnam War is a heavily
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