3.+Types+of+Media+and+Coverage+Leading+up+to+the+War

The television was invented long before Vietnam War started, and it's because of that magical invention that can bring the war into many American living rooms. There are many types of media coverage on the Vietnam War: Most people never paid attention to the Vietnam War until television changed everything. Now everybody can watch what is happening in the war within the average American living room. Some example of the coverage leading up to the awareness of the war was the speech president Kenny gaved on national television about America going into war to help South Vietnam fight communism. After that the media boomed: Television was like the baby boom and that it became popular when the war started to become the subject that everyone wants to get a feedback on. Showing of the violence became a really good way of getting ratings from viewers so television studios sent out reporters to go and film the fighting and gory part of the war so they can televise it. About four or five reporters have died trying to get the coverage. many lives were lost trying to get a good picture on the Vietnam War.
 * Television
 * Radio (rare)
 * Newspapers
 * Magazines
 * Newspapers everywhere are talking about the communist and democratic fight in Vietnam.
 * Many poets and writers began writing about the horrible things that comes out of war and the patriotic side towards the war.
 * Magazines also loves to write stories about the war, and there were time of conflicts were they are having trouble deciding if they should put some gory pictures of soldiers that have died during the war.
 * Most important part of all is the television.

There was also a newpaper called the Pentagon Paper and it gives out information on all the conspiracies and top secret department of defense information on the Vietnam War. This changed many people view point during the war. Most of the information given to the Pentagon Papers was from Daniel Ellsberg, who was a US military analysist.