The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting: The Vietnam War & post-Vietnam conflicts

Name: The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting: The Vietnam War & post-Vietnam conflicts
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ISBN-10: 0313329303
ISBN-13: 9780313329302
Series: The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting
Pages: 568
Language: English
Published: 2005
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Author: David A. Copeland

Description

Democracies cannot sustain unpopular wars. Vietnam was the most divisive for war for the American people. The enemy's tenacity was not accounted for in U.S. war plans until there was frustration in the field, skepticism in the press, and splintered support at home. After the Vietnam debacle the press's latitude to cover military action was increasingly curtailed by the military and the government, which sought to control the flow and content of the news better than they had in Vietnam by forcing reporters into supervised media pools.