Journalism
"At a time when the most damage of the war was being inflicted on Indo-China, the news coverage was at its worst, because editors and producers had decided that the ground war was virtually over and that, with the steady withdrawal of U.S. troops underway, public interest had declined. The second unfortunate result was that those editors and producers decided that there was no further interest in American atrocity stories."
— Phillip Knightley, The First Casualty: (Prion Books, 2000), p. 438
Filtered Reports
“No newspaper in the United States would publish the series of articles [by Miss Gellhorn detailing some of the details of the war]. ‘Everywhere I was told that they were too tough for American reader.’”
— Phillip Knightley, The First Casualty: (Prion Books, 2000), pp. 424, 428
