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American Press And Journalists In The Vietnam War

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The rise of many technological advancements such as television had the advantage of visual images and its ability to reach many Americans around the United States, which did not exist in previous wars. The fact that violence was viewed in large scale in the homes of many Americans made the antiwar protests and the Vietnam War extremely personal and surreal. This affected many Americans in their views of the war. American press and Journalists in the Vietnam war had heavily influenced the outcome of the war. Where before the US media had given the Americans back home the impression that the war would soon end, Journalists had not experienced war at first hand to such a scale and were shocked by what they were seeing and the ferocity of the
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