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not challenging Washington's policies. And in fact, TV reporters pre- paring stories on the Vietnam War (excluding antiwar protest in the United States) relied just as heavily on government spokesmen after Tet as they had earlier and rarely questioned their reliability.
Beyond mirroring changing events, Hallin contends, newsmen re- flected the dissolution of consensus, particularly among national lead- ers, behind the U.S. war effort. As Max Frankel of the...