Glimpse Into Reporting

In 1968, around five hundred reporters, photographers, and their staff covered the Vietnam War, compared in 1964 when there was around forty reporters. Making Vietnam the most extensively covered war in history.
Coverage was thought to have had a powerful influence on public opinion and on political decision making, making the media controversial.
Many journalists worked for specific news papers, magazines and news services, but others were "stringers", or free lance journalists.
For the most part, journalists were free to move about in Vietnam and there was no attempt on censorship from military officials. Although there was reports of harassment.