Walter Cronkite was a broadcast legend and famed anchorman for CBS news. In the interview below, he discusses the impact of his reporting from Vietnam in 1968. Check it out (this could be rather beneficial for you).
posted by Mr. Carlisle at 2:34 PM
I'm a native South Carolinian and I attained my undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of South Carolina. I taught fourth grade for two years in the Mississippi Delta and two years at an alternative high school in Western North Carolina. I have been at Tigard High School since the fall of 2003, where I teach U.S. History and Psychology.
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I think this broadcast is so memorable and mind changing (the one their referencing) because he didn't narrate the information, forming an analysis for the viewers like other broadcasts. He was successful at keeping his opinion and the facts separate allowing people to decide for themselves.
3:44 PM
It is interesting how support for the war went down just because the war was televised. I guess people have to see things for themselves to really start caring.
4:34 PM
I'm glad he didn't give his own opinion in his broadcasts. Media has a lot of influence on viewers.
Now the government has learned. They don't show gruesome war footage on television anymore.
8:32 PM
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