One of the most persistent myths about Vietnam is the idea that saturation coverage on television turned the public against the war and that by extension any televised war will lose public support. Hallin, "The Uncensored War": The Media and Vietnam In the case of Vietnam, excessive authority looks more like the source of imbalance than excessive democracy." From this angle the implications of government control over the media look very different.Those who imagine that political elites would govern better without the press and the public looking over their shoulders should look back to the decision-making process of the early 1960s that lead to American intervention in Vietnam. They were not discussed because the constraints of ideology and of journalistic routines tying news coverage to Washington perspectives excluded them from the news agenda. have in its political struggles were never seriously discussed in news coverage of the war, not, at any rate, in the New York Times coverage during the years when the decision was made to intervene, or in television coverage in subsequent years. What can be said is that such issues as what was best for the people of Indochina and how substantial a national interest did the U.S. "The collapse of America's "will" to fight in Vietnam resulted from a political process of which the media were only one part.It is hard to see how, short of a real turn to authoritarian government, political doubt and controversy could have been contained much longer.
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