That’s why they don’t allow live reporting from a combat zone any longer. The press used it to divide the nation in the 60’s and early 70’s. And you wonder why so many brave American soldiers were reviled when they returned from Vietnam.
It may not have made a difference but showing the brutality of the Maoist and communist regimes might have clarified our mission. As it were, the leftist press were allowed to only shown one side of the issue and promote the antiwar agenda. Maybe not fake news but only half of the story — the half that they favored.
My how times have changed — this would not happen today; in the age of the Internet. Most of us are much more aware of things now than ever before. Makes it harder for the propagandists.
“The press used it to divide the nation in the 60’s and early 70’s.”
Nothing has changed, except the public schools and universities do a better job to prepare kids to fall hook, line and sinker for whatever bias reporting the press puts out.
I can hear Tom Moorer growling:
“Seems like they turned all our victories into defeats.”
We were outsmarted and outmaneuvered on the college campuses. See Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber: The American Challenge.