How Did Changing Media Coverage Lead To A Crisis Flashcards
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Change in tone
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1960 90 percent of us homes had a TV
They were sticking ,y macv and showing positive success stories before but now they showed live footage unfiltered.
1965 search and destroy naked girl
1968 tet offensive execution of vietcong suspect
1968 retaking hue walter cronkife
1969 my lai massacre pile ofdead bodies
Saw young Americans being killed and maimed
2
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Collapse In support for the south
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Tensions between journalists and politicians
J accused of being communist sympathisers
Responded by openly criticising war cost 20 billion a year
Walter-wth is going on I thought we were winning this war
Fuelled antiwar movement eg 500,000 March on Washington 1969
Kent state uni 1970 where students rejected tactics
