The "Uncensored War": The Media and Vietnam

Vietnam was America's most divisive and unsuccessful foreign war. It was also the first to be televised and the first of the modern era fought without military censorship. From the earliest days of the Kennedy-Johnson escalation right up to the American withdrawal, and even today, the media's role in Vietnam has continued to be intensely controversial. The Uncensored gives a richly detailed account of what Americans read and watched about Vietnam. Hallin draws on the complete body of the New York Times from 1961 to 1965, a sample of hundreds of television reports from 1965-73, including television filmed by the Defense Department in the early years of the and interviews with many of the journalists who…