Posted: Dec 06, 2016 11:24 pm
crank wrote:Have evidence? I've documented dozens of examples, you just refuse to see it obviously. The media turned on the Vietnam around 67/68, the war had been going on for quite a while by then.
"The War", the part of the war we are talking about began in April of 1965 when Johnson changed the rules of engagement for US forces from defensive to offensive combined with an escalation of US combat troops from 3500 in March to ~200,000 at the end of the year. By mid August Morley Safer had filed a report for CBS News with Walter Cronkite of villages and homes being burned in retaliation for "a burst of gun fire."
Interesting though that you equate coverage by the media with the media turning on something. Sounds like no one is covering a subject until they take a position that you agree with.
crank wrote:How well did it cover what we did to Laos, and how well has this been mentioned since? There are still people dying there every year from unexploded cluster bombs we dropped there over 50 years ago. How widely is this known?
Well, no one covered the secret war until someone covered it and that would be the New York Times on May 9th, 1969. Until then it was a secret.