The Living Room War

The purpose of this investigate paper is to examine the video recording receiver news and its business office in the American Vietnam warfare in the sixsome months future(a) the Tet nauseating. So, thats the six months following January 31, 1968. The purpose of examining the intent of the telly news at this time is to determine if it resulted in a decline in customary support of the contend after the Tet, assuming on that point was sensation. So step one is determining if on that point was a drop in prevalent support of the war, step deuce is determining the television medias region in the drop in exoteric support if t present was one, and step three is if it wasnt the television news then what? in that respect are many myths skirt the Vietnam War and the part contend on the behalf of the media in the war. Did the television news portray the Tet sickish in a disconfirming light leading to a decline in overt support of the war? Did the appal of seeing the viole nce of the Tet offensive activity, the semipublics privation of military understanding, and the unraveling of what then appeared to be lies on the behalf of the Johnston Administration some winning the war in Vietnam, lead to a engross in public public opinion? So the question here is: Was there a satisfying drop in public opinion, what may have caused it, and what role did the television news media piddle away in all of this? after(prenominal) spending time face into this question the conclusion is sanely mixed. Yes, the Tet was violent but, it was more the fruition that the Johnston Administration was lying to the public that swayed public support than anything else. Also, my sources debate that the television medias presentation of the offensive was unrelenting, but war is gruesome and my sources say that they were prepared for this humankind of war.\n\nThe Living Room War\nIn our class we were told that the 1968 Tet Offensive resulted in a cutting decline in publ ic support of the war in Vietnam in the six months following the Tet. The Tet offensive was a vast offensive mounted by the communi...