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Eugine Nier's avatar

> Or the moment that he said Vietnam was not winnable.

And frankly Vietnam was perfectly winnable at that point.

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Chris Hall's avatar

General Westmoreland remarked the war wasn't lost on the battlefield, but in the living rooms of America.

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Just plain Rivka's avatar

https://www.nytimes.com/1966/08/16/archives/in-1900-readers-in-new-york-had-a-choice-of-15-newspapers-12-papers.html

My understanding was that each political party had their own paper, each viewpoint.

Seems a lot more honest than the “objective” news we get today.

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Just plain Rivka's avatar

Yellow journalism and the Spanish American War- Remember the Maine.

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