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To: quidnunc
On the other hand, radio, the movies and print media were constantly delivering a flag-waving, pro-war effort message.

There was a concentrated campaign to keep the civilian morale up, something that is largely non-existant today.

And while rationing created hardships, it also gave the people on the home front the sense that they were in the war along with the GIs.

All very good points.

So, I guess the question is one of when it became acceptable, if not fashionable for our media to be against the war effort?

Certainly, this had happened, for the most part by 1968, but did this begin during Korea?

Was this the New Left's backlash to the McCarthy Era--the hearings of the Committee to investigate un-American activites?

Many of those so-called "witch hunts" have actually been vindicated over time.

Or is it just that the MSM, print, and others have become so saturated with Socialists?

Perhaps the bottom line is that this may be the reason for the slide on the MSM's viewership, and the decline in print media as well as folks leave those media behind in the quest for the other side of the story.

50 posted on 09/12/2005 12:04:46 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Smokin' Joe wrote: So, I guess the question is one of when it became acceptable, if not fashionable for our media to be against the war effort?

I don't remember the media being particularly against the Korean War. A certain percentage of the public was ambivalent, or worse, about it because they couldn't see how it was in our national interests and because the memories of WW II were still so fresh.

But the virulent blame-America-first , anti-war movement really was born when the Baby-Bopomers reached draft age.

They thought they were too important to get their asses shot off.

52 posted on 09/12/2005 10:07:35 AM PDT by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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