The message of the statement is that colour television did effect the change of US opinions on war in Vietnam, But isn't the only cause.

  Sources D and H both explain the USA’s failure to deal with situations. In cartoon form. Source D is NVA propaganda. It shows the US failure to deal with guerrilla tactics and that Search and Destroy was a problem. It does not give any evidence-involving colour TV. This is similar to source H although source H is explaining the effects of President Johnson’s war policy and was published for Punch magazine and was political fun.

  Source F has no evidence involving colour television but does give us a lot of information on reports back from Vietnam and the effects of this. When it is linked with source G and The film ‘Full Metal Jacket’ It is a description of atrocities and consists of irony and horrific violence. It was written by an American journalist. This would have been likely to be published in a magazine therefore links to the idea of words being stronger than pictures it would shock the reader and may cause them to resent war. The film has a scene of journalists preparing assignments and reports back from Vietnam. Their aim was to get a good story; therefore they could often bend the truth and make the story seem more intense than the actual truth. The film does give a small amount of evidence linked to TV in a scene when a journalist (joker) has a video, which obviously is likely to be shown on television. He is attracted to film horrific scenes, which are likely to contribute to anti-war feelings. This source is linked to source G, which also describes atrocities just in a different sense. Both are linked to death and the effect of this on the soldiers and their behaviour. Source G is a statement from an American soldier he mentions the American ideal this is also shown in both films ‘Born on 4th of July’ and ‘Full metal jacket’ which also explain the reaction to Vietnam veterans and the way they were treat. Both sources explain that the soldiers resent My Lai and the war which when printed in magazines such as the times magazine will back up the Antiwar feelings in USA and also Australia.

The Media including television showed Horror of Napalm, which was a big issue during antiwar protests. Source   is a photograph of 2 very young victims of the Napalm bombing by the US. This source does actually give us some good evidence it has soldiers in the background who are filming the injured children and taking photographs also his source was published so was very likely to be all over the news in magazines and on television. I think this will have made a big effect on Anti-war feeling. It is a very good example of the effect of journalism.

Protests in America began as shown in source J. This was a photograph of a campaign just after the Kent state incident in 1970. This shook the world as 4 students were shot dead this made people aware of the effect that war was having. It gives us some evidence that Media was also having effect on opinions of war but doesn’t give us much information. Source K shows gives us some evidence but again not entirely helpful. The votes to bring US back were higher as it got later, this could have been due to influences of colour television and Media and also because basically the war was dragging on and they were high casualties as a result of it. Another effect of the results was probably events such as My Lai and Kent state.

  Overall sources D-L do give evidence that colour television did influence Anti-war opinions but wasn’t just the cause of US’s change of opinion as other events and their after effect on America did also contribute, as well as other media of which magazines containing letters and reports back from Vietnam had a huge effect on the public. Basically the Media showed horror of the napalm, death of women and children, and News that war may not be winnable. The scale of media involvement was extremely high and also affected the impact of protest movement on attacks to war.