Word: indochina
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...Australian paper that praised the Nazis. In a long letter he described what he had seen in a visit to Nazi-governed Germany. Since then he has covered the globe, concentrating on leftwing movements and struggles for national liberation. Most of his work has dealt with Asia, particularly Indochina, but he has also written about struggles in Africa and Portugal. By remaining a freelancer, he has escaped the pitfalls that most journalists run into: he contributes regularly to The Guardian in this country and to other independent left-wing papers in Europe, but has generally avoided editorial constraints by generally...
Burchett, on the other hand, spent most of the Indochina war on the other side, with the Vietnamese and Cambodian troops who were fighting the Americans. He travelled mainly on foot or by bicycle, in traditional Vietnamese clothes, but the U.S. authorities were clearly aware of his presence. A reporter for the London Sunday Times told Burchett recently that he was with an American battalion that tried to capture the Australian correspondent alive, by covering an area where Burchett was supposed to be with nerve gas. (Apparently, the U.S. authorities thought Burchett could disclose the whereabouts of American prisoners...
...American media also faced new challenges in the Indochina war: the issues were even fuzzier than the battle lines, because the official American position--which war correspondents had always accepted in the past--was built on a series of obviously false assumptions...
...First Casualty, Phillip Knightly suggests an important reason for the slowness with which reporters began to question U.S. tactics: most of the correspondents who went to Indochina had never covered a war before, and had no basis on which to conclude that the U.S. forces' brutality toward the civilian population was not common to all wars. They saw the racism toward the Vietnamese, the army's official refusal to acknowledge the damage the army was inflicting on a civilization. But it took correspondents a while to understand the size of the gap between official doublespeak and reality...
...Vietnamese government. Unlike, say, Gloria Emerson, who recently published Winners and Losers, he is interested in how Americans were fighting it, what it was like for the U.S. soldiers whose experiences were so warped by the vocabulary of the public relations people. There was a whole other reality in Indochina, but Herr leaves it to other writers who had more contact with the Vietnamese and Cambodians. And he offers no analysis of why the U.S. was there in the first place. This is a book about Americans, for Americans who experienced the war vicariously. Above all, Dispatches is an effort...