Media And The Military

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trusted what
reporters like Walter Cronkite were telling them. They believed it when
NBC journalists told them things like, “ the Marines are so bogged down in
Hue that nobody will predict when the battle would end…more than 500
marines have been wounded and over 100 dead since the in Hue began.” (Klein
51) Don't get the wrong idea though, these things really happened but the
public didn't need to know it.
The constitution and 1st amendment still mean something but
national security should come first. People rioting all over the country
in anti war protests should be an issue of national security. Without the
support of your homefront no country can win a war, especially a foreign
war (Franklin 250). It is impossible to get support at home when NBC is
showing them pictures of their boys getting massacred every night on the
nightly news.
On the other hand, during the Gulf War in Iraq the horrors of war
still existed, maybe not to the same extent, but they were ...

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