The TET offensive was a major disaster for the Viet Cong and a major victory for our forces. It was their last hurrah and it failed.
Yet our press used it to prove we were losing.
Mr. CRONKITE: (Reading) Tonight, back in more familiar surroundings in New York, we’d like to sum up our findings in Vietnam, an analysis that must be speculative, personal, subjective. Who won and who lost in the great Tet Offensive against the cities? I’m not sure. The Vietcong did not win by a knockout but neither did we.
(Me ... writing): what a useful idiot douchebag!
Ya I remember. The media reported the Tet offensive as a major defeat for the US and South Vietnam. When in fact it was a victory.
And it was right around that time that Walter Cronkite came out against the Vietnam war.
I always hate how the media seemed to celebrate the fall of Saigon, as if to tell us, that they were right all along about Vietnam and all that.
The same media ignored the devastaion caused by the communists taking over, and ignored the killing fields in Cambodia.