Uncensored War The Media and Vietnam

Name: Uncensored War The Media and Vietnam
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ISBN: 9780520065437

ISBN-10: 0520065433

ISBN-13: 9780520065437

Edition: 1989

Authors: Daniel C. Hallin

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Vietnam was America's most divisive and unsuccessful foreign war. It was also the first to be televised and the first of the modern era fought without military censorship. From the earliest days of the Kennedy-Johnson escalation right up to the American withdrawal, and even today, the media's role in Vietnam has continued to be intensely controversial. The "Uncensored War" gives a richly detailed account of what Americans read and watched about Vietnam. Hallin draws on the complete body of the New York Times coverage from 1961 to 1965, a sample of hundreds of television reports from 1965-73, including television coverage filmed by the Defense Department in the early years of the war, and…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/14/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Introduction



Escalation and News Management, 1961-1965



"A Legitimate Part of that Global Commitment," 1961-1963



"It Does Not Imply Any Change of Policy Whatever," 1964-1965



The War on Television, 1965-1973



The "Uncensored War," 1965-1967



"We Are on Our Way Out," 1968-1973



Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography



Abbreviations



Code Book with Marginals for Some Variables


Index