Which was fake news.
The US had just won the Battle of the Tet Offensive.
The Viet Cong would never again be a fighting force.
It was a great victory.
The commie Cronkite saw an opportunity for a propaganda coup.
Tet was an effort by the North to take the South in one huge offensive. It was a gamble that they lost in a huge way. But the sheer audacity of the attack was so unexpected that it allowed the press to make it appear as though the North had taken stolen the momentum of the war. While the truth was just the opposite.
Media et al propaganda lost it for us and anticommunism.