media influence

• How many journalists wore in Vietnam by 1965?


  400 - increased by 300 from 1964
• What was US TV ownership like in the us?

  > in 93% of households by 1961

  >main source of news for 60% in 1964
• What was media coverage like in the beginning of the war?

  >pro America

  >focused on communism

  >good relationship with army
• Who was Walter Cronkite?


  CBS newscaster-

  >voice of middle America

  >claimed the war will end in stalemate

  >Johnson said ' if I've lost Cronkite I've lost middle America
• How many journalists were killed in Vietnam?

  60
• What we're the 5 o'clock follies?


  Daily press briefings by the army
• How did the tet offensive influence the media's opinions?

  The government constantly claimed they were winning - this was the first time the vietcongs power was shown to Americans
• Watergate Scandal


  Result of break-in committed by Nixon's administration goal was to cover attempted burglary
• What did Life Magazine do?


  Published the names and faces of 242 casualties in one week in 1969
• What did the New York Times do?

  In 1971 published leaked reports that showed us' true involvement in the war