Coverage of War in the Media
When William Randolph Hearst first decided he wanted to publish a story about war in his newspaper, it was made clear to him that he would have to produce a war to publish a war. In his popular paper, National Enquirer, that so many Americans read, he used his words and influence to create an atmosphere of war in the states. ... Coverage of the War in Iraq today, is relatively extensive. ... It took quite some time, but eventually the public became persuasive enough to convince the government it was time for the Vietnam War to come to an end, that and the fact that our halfhearted efforts were causing more deaths than they were preventing.