Stories like CBS’s Cam Ne piece exposed a “credibility gap,” the yawning chasm between the claims of official sources and the increasingly evident reality on the ground in Vietnam.
It is interesting to see here how the war was becoming almost a game of cat and mouse for the public to know the truth.The government, wanting to placate its citizens and convince them to support the war effort, told white lies and mislead people to believe the war was going much better. Journalists, on the other hand, saw the reality of what was happening in vietnam and the atrocities being committed. They were hampered by a source that is supposed to be truthful, the government, and tried to let their countrymen know what was happening. The truth kept jumping through and the government would try to distract its people from the reality of the war, the reality that America was losing