how did tv reporting affect the vietnam war?
917752
Tv was irrelevant. Communism was the issue.
581519
Just like Viet Nam, the only station I know of that shows the dead in silent respect is PBS on Jim Learer News. I watch it every night to get the truth the other networks aren't showing. Deaths are still happening in Afghanistan too, and PBS shows them as well. I would rather know the truth then be lied too, and that is what I feel the present Government is doing to America on a daily basis. It's really sad, and I wish our military would come back home, so we can heal from all of this.
553881
It was the Vietnam War.  Millions of gallons were used.  A whole lot.  Look it up on Wikipedia or do a google search.
803789
How do you think the Vietnam war ended.
1040786
Fox news is. As is Dick "Last Throes" Cheney, Ann Coulter, Karl Rove, Rush and the Right Wing Echo Chamber.\nThe American people are wising up according to the latest polls.\nThis is another Vietnam quagmire. These people can't learn from history! \nWhat would you do if a foreign army occupied the U.S.? Welcome them with flowers! Get Real!\nWe're creating terrorists the longer we are there.\nAnd now they're talking about giving amnesty to Iraqi's who have attacked and killed U.S. troops! This whole adventure is misquided, driven by people who have never been in a combat situation..\nWe got rid of Saddam now let's go home. But we can't because the Administration really wants to stay forever and build permanent bases.\nWhat do you expect from an oil-man wannabe war president?\nWe've got to put an end to this madness!
737923
No thanks needed. But thanks for mentioning it. As a Vietnam era veteran, I didn't hear that from anyone for a couple of decades.
794987
It was just like the Vietnam war years ago, except there wasn't a rapid change to show the horrors of war as much.  The war coverage was always sort of propaganda filled in that it would show the death tolls and then immediately indicate that "progress" was being made.  Frankly, I feel like we have no connection to the wars that are being fought.  How much do you or I really know?
1044231
Vaguely, yes.  I'm not too old, nor too young.  I think what you are thinking about is not about the death toll, but rather how we stepped into jungle guerrilla warfare in Vietnam, totally unprepared for what was about to happen.  Then, we opened the jungle warfare school, and now we are awesome fighting in the jungle, but again the face of the enemy has changed and now we are fighting a bunch of terrorists, which like in Vietnam are difficult to differentiate between them and the civilian population.  We get burned in the press when we fight and burned when we don't, so it is a lose lose proposition and the soldiers are the ones with their back sides on the line.  The politicians? not so much.  Yes, we do have big guns, but if we blast the crap out of some building, inevitably, we kill someone unintended and it's a vicious press cycle.  The two "conflicts" are very different, but there are some vague similarities, that shouldn't be overlooked.  I hope one of the similarities doesn't turn out to be the length of time we stay there!
592270
In order to allow the USA to leave the Vietnam War in 1973 and hopefully get Americans minds off of Watergate, the US agreed to drop the cases of approximately 1500 servicemen believed to be alive and held in Laos. The United States unilaterally changed the designation from Missing in Action to Dead. There has been very little political will on the part of the US government and very little ability to mobilize public support for this cause, in part because there have been some very embarrassing and some even dishonest people who have been part of the public relations (money has gone to people other than what was intended, there was a reported trade in information on persons known to be killed, etc). There has also been a reported rift between the veterans' and the POW/MIA movements that might have been started by the government to trivialize both parties' concerns.
711187
well it was on the t.v. up close & personal, I will carry those images with me till I die. other than the casualty lies we REALLY saw the Vietnam war, we saw those flag draped coffins too, I believe it should still be that way, Americans should see the cost of war in blood & death, this sanitized conflict is no good, the people are disconnected from it, the coverage of the Vietnam war was reallity, that is NOT a bad thing.
886796
I think it was the other way around.  The United States got involved in Vietnam's political situation by supporting a puppet regieme and taking its side in a civil war , which ultimately determined who the legitimate government was - when the US backed side lost.  We had no business being there in the first place.
157123
I have uncles that fought on both sides of the war, and can write a book that will contradict most of the answers before me. Saving all the writing, I'll give a digested version.\n\nThe war was not just about Americans fighting communism. It was a common people fighting each other for how they though their country should be. It was very much a civil war, and lots of Vietnamese lost their lives on both sides fighting for what they thought was right.\n\nSaying that something could have been done to ensure victory for ARVN and American forces indicates a gross lack of knowledge about what was actually happening in Vietnam because victory over the communist forces was ALWAYS available at any time. \n\nThe South and Americans were never allowed to win the war. The VC base of Cu Chi (the tunnels) is a good example of this. Cu Chi is about 20 miles from downtown Saigon, and close enough to launch missles into Saigon every night. ARVN and American forces wre forbidden to enter the area eventhough every aspect of that VC base was known and more than enough resources was available to clear it at any time. You cannot win a war when it is fought like this.\n\nThe North NEVER had the ability to win the war. The NVA and VC forces never won a major battle and could not hold a position against ARVN or American forces. NVA and VC forces had a fraction of the armaments and equipment and easily overwhelmed by the resources and firepower available to ARVN and American forces. \n\nThe Tet offense was a military FAILURE for the NVA and VC forces. The VC forces was destroyed as a fighting force and the NVA exhausted most of their armaments during the Tet offense. The government and history book try to tell a different story tomake the NVA and VC forces as more formidable opponents.\n\nThe ARVN and American forces in Vietnam didn't loose the war. The American politicians did by deciding that the war not useful anymore.\n\nSo what can be done to win the Vietnam war? The war was never really lost. Communism is taking it's last breath in Vietnam after ruining the country for many years. Now, all the Vietnamese people want Americans back and not just the South. Instead of fighting to hold part of the country, we can now vacation and do business with the whole country. The communist politicians in Vietnam lost their war too.
224660
You might find this web site useful: "The Vietnam Conflict: Coming Home, by Bill Hunt."
524457
vietnam \nIndo-Pak war 1971
877673
You will get a hard core, hung over, post stress case sceaming about Bush and Viet Nam. And maybe that's rightfully so. All situations in VN were not the same.\n\nAfter you fight someone hard you gain a certain respect for each other... VN is no different. \n\nPoliticians, Hanoi Jane and demonstrators who took it out on all veterans caused the worst scars.
950576
they reported it as quickly as the limits of the media allowed minus the delay requested so that the news was not misused by the enemy.  The media then realized the threat to the free world something they never seem to have remembered ever again.\n\nEdit we entered the war Dec 7 1941 DDAy was June 6 1944 the war ended Aug 1945  we were well into it and well commited.
303521
i don't think thats what caused it. maybe it was something that happened in Vietnam