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...inquiry," Leval warned, could last a lifetime. Instead, the focus is on what CBS alleged in its 1982 documentary The Uncounted Enemy: that Westmoreland engaged in "a conspiracy at the highest levels of military intelligence" to mislead his superiors, including the President, about the size and scope of enemy troop strength, and thus about the success of his war of attrition...
Network correspondents then troop triumphantly out on the White House lawn to mouth these comments as if they were repeating inside information instead of the daily Administration line. Washington's print journalists are a frustrated lot. Pooh-bah journalism is dead, and the role of the Washington columnist diminished, both having given way to television's visual immediacy...
...case involves a 1982 CBS documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception. Westmoreland, who commanded U.S. forces in South Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, calls the program a "hatchet job" for alleging that he engaged in a "conspiracy" to underreport enemy troop strength. According to the 90-min. broadcast, Westmoreland's command, in its reports to President Lyndon Johnson and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, estimated Viet Cong strength at about 300,000. Many intelligence operatives believed the true figure was closer to 500,000. The program also charges that the Saigon command withheld information about the nearly...
Boies' 450-page brief for CBS cites testimony from officials ranging from former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to CIA operatives who served in Viet Nam. Their testimony, Boies contends, shows that the manipulation of enemy-troop assessments did occur. On the First Amendment issue, he argues that far from exhibiting "reckless disregard" for the truth, CBS interviewed more than 80 people for the report. Finally, he contends that the press should have "absolute immunity" from libel suits by public officials...
...coldblooded as anything TV has shown. Yet the violence is frequently underplayed to good effect. In one scene, the couple's three children huddle together on a bed and listen impassively to the screams and blows coming from the other room. When the front door slams, they troop in unison to the window to watch the fight continue outside. A dozen graphic scenes could not tell us more about the numbing familiarity of this domestic reign of terror...