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...military is not new, the wrangling reached its worst level in years during the Gulf War, prompted by strict rules on reporting instituted by the Department of Defense. But in fighting this battle with military critics, the press forgot about the last one. In order to fight censorship in this war, it has perpetuated myths about the media in America's first "living-room war," the Vietnam War, when the reporters themselves were the chief source of censorship...
Those trying to report the war accurately have every right to complain about these strictures. Americans should be exposed to the full reality of the war they supported so strongly. But unfortunately, in protesting today's censorship, Apple, Browne and others have drawn misleading comparisons with Vietnam...
ADMITTEDLY, there was not the military censorship in Vietnam that has characterized the Gulf War. Such strict rules from the Pentagon are foreign to Vietnam-era reporters. (Although these rules were common in World Wars...
...fact is that while there was no military censorship in Vietnam, there was still censorship. Beginning in 1984, University of California professor Daniel C. Hallin reviewed hundreds of hours of TV news reports on Vietnam from all 3 networks at the Vanderbilt University Television Archive. Hallin's results, compiled in his book The "Uncensored War," were startling...
...tapes and transmissions coming into the country are monitored to avoid offending the sensibilities of the Saudi hosts. That rules out programs containing make-out scenes, women wearing tight or revealing clothing and displays of religious icons. Some soldiers were concerned that the restrictions might cause the censorship of Cher's Video Canteen, a two-hour special of music videos hosted by the actress, whose scanty costumes are her trademark. Programmers for the VH-1 cable network, which sponsored the show, did exclude some videos from the program, including all by Madonna, but Cher passed muster by wearing jeans...