Journalism and The Vietnam War

Up until this point, I've been showing journalism in one medium only. Newspapers and magazines. In the historical examples we've looked at thus far, newspapers and magazines were enough to bury opposition. Articles exposing injustices and corruption, cartoon images, all printed on black and white paper were enough to do serious damage at this point. However, what happens when technology advances, and the culture changes. When people are getting more news from their televisions than they are from newspapers. You bring the movement to their living room. The Vietnam War was the first and last war shown to Americans without censorship. Brutal, vivid, extremely violent images were shown to American families all around the country and positively or negatively, impacted America's involvement in the war. We'll be looking at how journalism, for better or worse [we'll get to opinions later] changed the war on a massive scale.