Big Story: How the American Press and Television Reported and Interpreted the Crisis of TET 1968 in Vietnam and Washington: Volume 1
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1977. Published in cooperation with Freedom House. Presumed 1st. Hardcover. Volume 1 ONLY. Illustrations. xxxvii, [1], 740, [6] p. Footnotes. Introduction by Leonard R. Sussman. Includes a Public Opinion Analysis by Burns W. Roper. From Wikipedia: "Peter Braestrup (1929 10 August 1997) was a correspondent for The New York Times and The Washington Post, founding editor of the Wilson Quarterly, and later senior editor and director of communications for the Library of Congress. Retiring from journalism in 1973, he founded the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Wilson Quarterly, and in 1989 moved to the Library of Congress. Braestrup's 1977 Freedom House-sponsored book, the two-volume Big Story, criticized US media coverage of the Vietnam War's 1968 Tet Offensive. The book, which argued that the media coverage of the offensive was excessively negative and helped lose the war, "is regularly cited by historians as the standard work on media reporting of the Tet offensive" Condition: Good. Slightly cocked. Cover has slight wear and soiling.
Keywords: Broadcast Journalism, Mass Media, Peter Arnett, Hanson Baldwin, Ellsworth Bunker, Walter Cronkite, Lescaze, Charles Mohr, Pacification, United Press, William Westmoreland
ISBN: 9780891580126
[Book #70180]
Price: $125.00