Why weren't western journalists reporting on what the NVA was doing?

U.S. Army never invaded North Vietnam.

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The U.S. is a free and open society

The media had a far-left agenda and souring Middle America on the war was part of it

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Common sense is a code word for feelings, sense are feelings. Appeal to feelings is a common political strategy. You make it sound more logical and not irrational if you call it common sense, appeal to logic, when you're appealing to feelings. It's like a double negative, or selling snake oil. It's sort of like saying "I don't hate niggers, I just don't like them." or "I'm not racist, but,,, yadaracistyadastatementyada.."

yes. Franklin was a hyperwealthy fag fuck who cucked out to the french. America consistently idolizes the wealthy and pursuits their interests and pleasures over that of the state

News reporters dont do nuance well.

Another reporter interviewed by Dan Carlin admitted he was pro North Vietnam at the time. The entire media was doing propaganda for the commies, whether they realized it or not.
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But it is common sense to not let unsupervised journalists shape the narrative, especially one that is adverse to your war effort.

I think the word "agenda" makes it seem like some kind of coordinated political effort. It was not. It was entirely a profit driven effort. Disaster and controversy get more views than "our boys did well again today," regardless of the viewer's politics.

Can you not trash talk America? Washington set a precident of uniting states under federal authority by not turning it into an imperialist system. Russia didn't do that with lenin and stalin, cuba didn't do it with castro, venuzuela isn't doing that. libya didn't do that. Communism doesn't do that at all. Every place under control of communists wants to revolt. There are always elements that want a problem, except overall that place and it's system doesn't work.
Sounds like one of hannoi janes ex husbands has a cousin or a kid implicated in the college scandal if you're complaining. You're like the former protestants that bitch about the catholic thing to ignore the jimmy car issue to avoid implicating people that aided and abbeded him. The split of protestants from catholics was purely political and had nothing to do with theology. They have to distract from their own problems by trying to highlight the problems of someone that will honestly try to do the right thing for a higher calling. They just are probably disappointed they can't cause a modern genocidal famine or coffin ships while doing it.

Then you are accused of suppressing the press, and they would be right. Some things are classified for a reason and most of us are okay with that, but it becomes conspicuous when you don't allow any access at all.

> It was entirely a profit driven effort
Except it wasn't They were not coordinated but being a commie dissenter was the zeitgeist.
The media was always a money pit, investors know they're buying influence, not making a good business decision.

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How did they do it in WW2, Desert Storm 1 and 2? Press pool, motherfuckers.

It's not schizo, America is founded on anglo saxon heathen principles. Nobody refers to that tranny governer of new york as a she over he even though he helped dispose of the last irish resistance with a claimant and did things feministly under the direction of a female monarchy.

Television is what changed the game. WW2 wasn't televised, so the audience did not have as much of a visceral connection to the events. The Gulf War was short and did not involve heavy involvement on the scale of the other wars. Operation Iraqi Freedom, on the other hand, was reported on just like the Vietnam war. Everyday you would hear about another IED.

American government obfuscated what they were doing throughout the entire war that so much of what was "uncovered" severely damaged the reputation of the government.

Not saying they set a precedent you have to do that. Just that it's about not adopting tyrannical systems from the bible like Greeks and Phoenicians, Islam, feminism, or veganism, or whatever split where a politics becomes a religious worship.

This.

Press involvement wouldn't even have been a problem if the military had actually known what the fuck it was doing in Vietnam.

The government was forcing the military to chase ghosts through a jungle halfway round the world when the commies they should have been fighting were at home protesting and destroying college campuses.

Even worse for the war effort was the military and government lying to and misleading the public about how the war was going, both to deliberately deceive and because they didn't know what they were doing. The media didn't spend three years proclaiming that victory was assured against the Communists, only for the Tet Offensive to blow up in their face and do fatal damage to their credibility.

They did, the Vietnam War was one of the most reported on in history, it's just that they were only able to report what the military decided to tell them
Then you had Jane Fonda who literally saw Americans getting tortured and did the equivalent of
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