Covering Dissent: The Media and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement

by Melvin Small

The Media and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement

Genres: History, Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1994

About the author

Melvin Small is a distinguished professor of history emeritus at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan after receiving his BA from Dartmouth College. Over the past two decades he has concentrated his research and writing on the postwar era, with an emphasis on the Vietnam War, the antiwar movement, and presidents Johnson and Nixon.

Reviews

[Craig Werner · Rating 3 out of 5]

A useful extension of/supplment to The Uncensored War. Small documents how the major news sources--NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Time and the three major TV networks, covered the anti-war movement. Especially during the early phases of the movement, the coverage supported the government line; after that, it becomes more complicated. But, conservative mythology aside, at no point did the media come anywhere close to siding with the dissidents.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. Interesting exploration of media coverage of the antiwar movement during the Vietnam war, but it was fairly limited, and really could and should have been expanded.