Chapter Eleven. The Vietnam War in the Eyes of a Vietnamese War Correspondent

Abstract

This chapter discusses the Vietnam War from the perspective of a South Vietnamese war correspondent. It first shares the author's personal experience as a war correspondent and a journalist employed in both government and private media in South Vietnam. Next, the chapter turns to the biases of the American media that affected the outcome of the war. Many foreign correspondents have spoken and written about the Vietnam War. But no matter how long they covered the war, nor how much they came to know the country, the war could never penetrate their soul in the same way as it did a son or daughter of Vietnam. The chapter thus attempts to offer a different view of the war than what was portrayed in the mainstream international media.