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The Vietnam War was the longest war in which the United States took part. The police action, as it was originally called, began in 1957, when Vietnam was separated into Communist ruled North Vietnam and noncommunist South Vietnam. ... Many theories grew from the outcome of the Vietnam War, but none is more notable than the allegations of how a bold, aggressive media turned America against the war. As American people sank into bewilderment of live war on television, the question we can now ask is “What role did the Media play in shaping our memories of Vietnam?”
In Susan Sontag’s essay Regarding the Pain of Others, she explains how the Vietnam War was a turning point for the way Americans witnessed a war. During WWII and the Korean War, many households in the U. ... could not witness human beings killing each other unlike the Vietnam War due to the fact that T. ... She writes,
“The war America waged in Vietnam, the first to be witnessed day after day by television cameras, introduced the home front to new tele-intimacy with death and destruction. ... That what the tele-intimacy part means, and not with the appropriate knowledge of what a war is, the television broadcasts were the teachers. Sontag states after the previously mentioned quote,
“The understanding of war among people who have not experienced war is now chiefly a product of the impact of these images.” (21)
The images that we were being revealed are creating a new memory for those who don’t know what war and how it is carried out. ... Most of the photographs the media took during the Vietnam War were focused on war itself, not the people it was affecting.
Approximate Word count = 1341
Approximate Pages = 5.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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