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...... But it was in Vietnam that the media bias truly came to the fore. The nation (and indeed, the whole word) was undergoing a cultural sea change. The youth of the nation culturally identified with the flower children, who considered peace to be the only option and were willfully blind to the realities of life. It is possible that the U.S. could have been better served to not join the Vietnam War. But at the time, the U.S. believed that its destiny and that of world lay in rooting out Communist interference wherever possible. The U.S.S.R had colonized entire regions of Europe into the East Bloc, and was making inroads into Asia. One battle in the Vietnam War stands out: The Tet Offensive. The North Vietnamese forces and their Communist allies made one desperate attempt to salvage the war in the face of a heavy loss. This was on the day of the Vietnamese festival of Tet. 85,000 troops joined in an all out offensive on the American and South Vietnamese forces. (Willbanks, 2007) They captured some Vietnamese towns. This was a moral victory for the North Vietnamese though a short lived one. The American and South Vietnamese recaptured

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