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Looking at this paragraph... "Before the 1960s, the news media had no interest in Vietnam. Black American journalists followed events only when breaking news happened in the region." I know nothing about the subject matter (hence reading the article) but is this really relating specifically to Black journalists? Or has someone vandalised? If it's accurate, why are Black journalists special as opposed to all the rest? Again I don't know but I'd imagine they were in a considerable minority at that point? 86.174.184.73 ( talk) 01:16, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
"Upon investigation, however, the verity of all three of these suppositions tends to collapse."
This sentance to me seems a little opinionated. I suggest it gets re-worded or removed or cited with a credible source. Rhetth ( talk) 01:54, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
- This isn't an encyclopedia entry, this is someone's research paper for school that they thought would be cool to show off to everyone on the Internet. I'm not criticisng the content, which is well-written; I'm just saying that, in its present form, it does not belong in Wikipedia. - Guest, 18 August 2008
I've just tagged this article as being US-centric as, despite its title, it only covers the American media. The near complete absence of any coverage of the media in South and North Vietnam, other countries which participated in the war (eg, Australia, New Zealand, etc) and the media in countries not directly involved seems to be a significant shortcoming. It may be appropriate to move this article to United States news media and the Vietnam War. Nick-D ( talk) 07:18, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
You seem to be ignoring "The French Press Agency" which did have Western correspondent in North Vietnam and even supplied a wire service, much like AP or UPI; very few, if any Western outlets would subscribe to it; one that did was the "Pacifica" radio group specifically their New York City outlet, WBAI. Satchmo Sings ( talk) 23:47, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
I started to change this article from a term paper into an encyclopedic article with the idea it might motivate more knowledgeable editors. To put it mildly I have barely scratched the surface. This article while having more neutral language is still biased towered the view that the media coverage had nothing to do with Americans turning against the War. The case for this is for the most part two books. There is nothing more then some statements from back in the day criticizing the media for being to negative etc there are no sources arguing this view. While there is a rebuttal to the view that the media served as a watchdog there is no sources actually arguing this view as far as I can see. The actual history seems well researched although the section names need to be looked at, more neutral language and so on. Edkollin ( talk) 23:47, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
86.148.171.101 ( talk) 00:23, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
This article fails to mention that there was at least one Western news agency in North Vietnam during The Vietnam War, namely The French Press Agency (Agence France-Presse).
Indeed, I'm old enough to remember listening to the radio broadcasts of my local Pacifica radio station in New York City, WBAI; their regular evening news was hosted and largely prepared by Paul Fischer; it was called "The War Summary" and he would freely credit the French Press Agency at the conclusion of each broadcast; none of this is in either the article on The French Press Agency here in Wikipedia nor in any article on WBAI nor Pacifica so the claim that no Western news agency had any correspondents in North Vietnam during this conflict is essentially not correct.
I'm not so sure but I seem to recall that WBAI even had a wire from the French Press Agency right in the station, much as more commercial outlets would have one from AP or UPI.
Satchmo Sings ( talk) 23:40, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 ( talk) 00:00, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, has anyone else noticed that in the photo in Tet Offensive paragraph that the picture of someone being shot is taped to the tv? Rjbraasch ( talk) 23:03, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
I have, and the caption is not just misleading, it's false. Either the photo should be removed or the caption should be changed to say that the two people are posing for a photo to appear to be watching TV news. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.76.2.237 ( talk) 01:05, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
The opening line of this section states that by 1968, America had 'officially' been at war with Vietnam for four years. I'm just wondering where the information for that comes from, since no official declaration of war was ever made with Vietnam. Is there a way this could be phrased that communicates this better? SBrennen ( talk) 18:08, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
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Looking at this paragraph... "Before the 1960s, the news media had no interest in Vietnam. Black American journalists followed events only when breaking news happened in the region." I know nothing about the subject matter (hence reading the article) but is this really relating specifically to Black journalists? Or has someone vandalised? If it's accurate, why are Black journalists special as opposed to all the rest? Again I don't know but I'd imagine they were in a considerable minority at that point? 86.174.184.73 ( talk) 01:16, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
"Upon investigation, however, the verity of all three of these suppositions tends to collapse."
This sentance to me seems a little opinionated. I suggest it gets re-worded or removed or cited with a credible source. Rhetth ( talk) 01:54, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
- This isn't an encyclopedia entry, this is someone's research paper for school that they thought would be cool to show off to everyone on the Internet. I'm not criticisng the content, which is well-written; I'm just saying that, in its present form, it does not belong in Wikipedia. - Guest, 18 August 2008
I've just tagged this article as being US-centric as, despite its title, it only covers the American media. The near complete absence of any coverage of the media in South and North Vietnam, other countries which participated in the war (eg, Australia, New Zealand, etc) and the media in countries not directly involved seems to be a significant shortcoming. It may be appropriate to move this article to United States news media and the Vietnam War. Nick-D ( talk) 07:18, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
You seem to be ignoring "The French Press Agency" which did have Western correspondent in North Vietnam and even supplied a wire service, much like AP or UPI; very few, if any Western outlets would subscribe to it; one that did was the "Pacifica" radio group specifically their New York City outlet, WBAI. Satchmo Sings ( talk) 23:47, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
I started to change this article from a term paper into an encyclopedic article with the idea it might motivate more knowledgeable editors. To put it mildly I have barely scratched the surface. This article while having more neutral language is still biased towered the view that the media coverage had nothing to do with Americans turning against the War. The case for this is for the most part two books. There is nothing more then some statements from back in the day criticizing the media for being to negative etc there are no sources arguing this view. While there is a rebuttal to the view that the media served as a watchdog there is no sources actually arguing this view as far as I can see. The actual history seems well researched although the section names need to be looked at, more neutral language and so on. Edkollin ( talk) 23:47, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
86.148.171.101 ( talk) 00:23, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
This article fails to mention that there was at least one Western news agency in North Vietnam during The Vietnam War, namely The French Press Agency (Agence France-Presse).
Indeed, I'm old enough to remember listening to the radio broadcasts of my local Pacifica radio station in New York City, WBAI; their regular evening news was hosted and largely prepared by Paul Fischer; it was called "The War Summary" and he would freely credit the French Press Agency at the conclusion of each broadcast; none of this is in either the article on The French Press Agency here in Wikipedia nor in any article on WBAI nor Pacifica so the claim that no Western news agency had any correspondents in North Vietnam during this conflict is essentially not correct.
I'm not so sure but I seem to recall that WBAI even had a wire from the French Press Agency right in the station, much as more commercial outlets would have one from AP or UPI.
Satchmo Sings ( talk) 23:40, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 ( talk) 00:00, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, has anyone else noticed that in the photo in Tet Offensive paragraph that the picture of someone being shot is taped to the tv? Rjbraasch ( talk) 23:03, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
I have, and the caption is not just misleading, it's false. Either the photo should be removed or the caption should be changed to say that the two people are posing for a photo to appear to be watching TV news. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.76.2.237 ( talk) 01:05, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
The opening line of this section states that by 1968, America had 'officially' been at war with Vietnam for four years. I'm just wondering where the information for that comes from, since no official declaration of war was ever made with Vietnam. Is there a way this could be phrased that communicates this better? SBrennen ( talk) 18:08, 12 April 2023 (UTC)