Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson
government means pictures vietnam war
Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
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You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.
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All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.
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Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.