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Military-Media Tensions Comes to a Head:
Long-standing tensions between the military and media bubbled to the surface during the Vietnam War. There was very little U.S. censorship in Vietnam, and few restrictions. By the mid-1960s, media reports contradicted the Pentagon's view of how the war was progressing. The 1968 Tet offensive was the turning point. Though later revealed to be a military disaster for communist forces, at the time it was reported as their victory -- and a stinging indictment of the United States. |