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Lunar New Year, the Viet Cong violated a temporary ceasefire by launching a major invasion across South

Vietnam. The offensive was a military catastrophe for the Viet Cong. It essentially

defenestrated them as a serious

fighting force in South Vietnam and ended with them retreating from all captured territory.

The military loss, however, was not the real story. The real story was America's media.

Walter Cronkite, America's most trusted news anchor, was in actuality a partisan leftist,

but he masqueraded as an objective journalist.

And so, on receiving news of the Tet Offensive, Kronkite went on the air and proceeded to

inform the American people that the war in Vietnam was being lost. He flew to Vietnam to investigate

the situation himself, and upon his return, he said this.

For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.

This summer's almost certain standoff will either end in real give and take negotiations or terrible escalation.

And for every means we have to escalate, the enemy can match us, and that applies to invasion of the North,

the use of nuclear weapons, or the mere commitment of 100 or 200,000 more American troops

to the battle. And with each escalation, the world comes closer to the brink of cosmic disaster.

The Vietnam War wasn't primarily lost on the battlefield.

It was lost in the hearts and minds of the American people, and it was lost in large part

because of the American news media.

The American news media has rarely covered itself in glory covering foreign policy.

The New York Times famously covered for Stalin's Halotamarar his starvation of millions of his own citizens in Ukraine,

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