David Halberstam Quotes
A good war televises well; a bad war televises poorly.
Halberstam and other journalists were criticized for sending images of the Vietnam War into the living rooms of America creating a negative public attitude about the Vietnam War.
David Halberstam, 1934-2007, Journalist & Writer, David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest, Fawcett, 1969
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Steinbeck also served as a journalist as did Earnest Hemmingway and other great American writers. In WWII there was a great deal of censorship and even more self censorship by the press. The result is that many of the U. S. military blunders were covered up on the grounds that it would not be good for the morale of the soldiers to know that their officers had made such tragic mistakes.
Following the sinking of the battleship Maine in Cuba in 1898, Hearst, then a newspaper publisher, dispatched artist Frederic Remington to Cuba to paint war scenes for Hearst's newspapers. Remington could not find any and so cabled Hearst. This was Hearst’s famous reply. Hearst's newspapers then all called for war, and Congress shortly thereafter declared such,
David Halberstam was an American writer, journalist, and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and later, sports journalism. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1964. Halberstam was killed in a car crash in 2007, while doing research for a book.
