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During the Vietnam War the media was left unchecked and brought the wartime images of death and carnage into America's living room. These images served as morale killers and eventually turned much of the public against its own government. During the Gulf War on ....

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.... the most important source for news for most of the American public, and beyond that, perhaps, the most powerful single influence on the public.” (Hallin 106) So people trusted what reporters like Walter Cronkite were telling them. They believed it when NBC journalists told them things like, “ the Marines are so bogged down in Hue that nobody will predict when the battle would end…more than 500 marines have been wounded and over 100 dead since the in Hue began.” (Klein 51) Don't get the wrong idea though, these things really happened but the public didn't need to know it. The constitution and 1st amendment still mean something but na ....