4.+Media+and+Coverage+During+the+War+and+its+Effects

The Vietnam was the first televised war

86% of CBS & NBC News covered the war & focused most of it from the ground & air, most of this coverage was supportive of the U.S involvements in the war - this early in the war American Soldiers were considered or potrayed as heros

By 1967, 90% of the news covered the war during the night & 50 million people would watch from their homes - journalists began & could follow soldiers into combat & observe them without censorship - journalists then presented the public with more graphic images

Television potrayed the Tet Offensive as a brutual defeat for the U.S after that, the coverage of the involvement of Americans in the war became negative

With the public losing their support for the war, politicans initiated withdrawal policies.

Television now focused on political progress - from 1965 to 1969 48% combat stories were televised - in 1970 until the end of the Vietnam War, only 13% were combat stories



Because of the war in Vietnam many protest broke out in the U.S especially from college students. - Protests first broke out in 1965, in Berkeley, California.

Thousands of students took the protests onto the streets throughout the country. - these protests also became violent, making many college campuses war zones &involved    bombings & vandalism

When the last American troops were withdrawn from Vietnam, many anti-Vietnam protests stopped