Did the US have any control over the photos/videos/reports leaving vietnam in the vietnam war?
I believe they had a degree of control not so much over the photographers and news crews but rather pressure by the government over the mainstream media. It was much less controlled than recent conflicts such as the Iraq war where the notion of embedding journalists is the most revolting form of manipulation and control. The reason there was less control was that this was perceived originally as a bit of a “no brainer” everyone would be on side…the war soon attracted so maany upcoming and different photographers to those seen in WWII who soon saw that this was not a conflict where sides could be easily taken – the reuslt were some of the most brutal and honest photographs not only of thing slike the famous execution of a VC by a south Vietnamese officer, the girl running down the street napalmed, but the harowing pics of GIs clearly traumatically distressed – in short the propaganda was at home and not on the field – and the results soon began to break the support for the war when th
