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Journal of Broadcasting Volume 28, 1984 - Issue 4
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An analysis of television coverage of the Vietnam war

Oscar Patterson III Associate Professor in the Department of Communicative Arts, Pembroke State University
Pages 397-404 | Accepted 01 Apr 1984, Published online: 18 May 2009
 
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Abstract

Between 1965 and 1975 no other single event so dominated television news programs as did the war in Vietnam. Yet analysis of the content of actual news broadcasts does not support the contention that nightly news programs were filled with pictures of battle, or the dead, dying and wounded.

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