Media coverage of World War II and the Vietnam War differed substantially. For World War II, Americans relied mainly on radio, newspapers, and movie newsreels for war updates. In contrast, Vietnam War coverage increased dramatically in the U.S. only after 1965 when large numbers of American troops were deployed, going from fewer than two dozen journalists in 1964 to around 600 accredited journalists in Vietnam by 1968.
Media coverage of World War II and the Vietnam War differed substantially. For World War II, Americans relied mainly on radio, newspapers, and movie newsreels for war updates. In contrast, Vietnam War coverage increased dramatically in the U.S. only after 1965 when large numbers of American troops were deployed, going from fewer than two dozen journalists in 1964 to around 600 accredited journalists in Vietnam by 1968.
Media coverage of World War II and the Vietnam War differed substantially. For World War II, Americans relied mainly on radio, newspapers, and movie newsreels for war updates. In contrast, Vietnam War coverage increased dramatically in the U.S. only after 1965 when large numbers of American troops were deployed, going from fewer than two dozen journalists in 1964 to around 600 accredited journalists in Vietnam by 1968.
Media coverage of World War II and the Vietnam War differed substantially. For World War II, Americans relied mainly on radio, newspapers, and movie newsreels for war updates. In contrast, Vietnam War coverage increased dramatically in the U.S. only after 1965 when large numbers of American troops were deployed, going from fewer than two dozen journalists in 1964 to around 600 accredited journalists in Vietnam by 1968.
Media in the World War II Media in the Vietnam War
.- During World War II most Americans .-Vietnam became a subject of large-scale
followed the news of the war through news coverage in the United States only after three sources: radio broadcasts, substantial numbers of U.S. combat troops newspapers – there were more than had been committed to the war in the spring of 11,000 in the country then – and 1965. Prior to that time, the number of newsreels that preceded the movies at American newsmen in Indochina had been their local theatres. small—fewer than two dozen even as late as 1964. By 1968, at the height of the war, there .- were about 600 accredited journalists of all nationalities in Vietnam, reporting for U.S. wire services, radio and television networks, and the major newspaper chains and news magazines.