Covering Dissent: The Media and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement

by Melvin Small

Book Overview

"Small . . . finds, rather, that the media had a built-in bias against [Vietnam] protesters--in particular, the television reports sought out scenes of violence, and hence gave disproportionate emphasis to even the smallest counter-demonstration. Small is methodical, indeed, comparing carefully what was supposed to happen, what actually did happen, what the media said had happened about what had happened, and about what 'two thin-skinned presidents,'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813521076
• ISBN13: 9780813521077
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.