what appeared on television or magazines or radios as the experience began from president eisenhower ian kennedy in particular in johnson made it their job to lobby intensely with american newspaper editors and television directors to shape the image coming out of vietnam. because of the nature of america's commitment it was not a declared war still not declared. a limited the engagement beginning with advisers and american troops and smaller groups finally becoming an army of over half a million. but this was never a conflict that the u.s. government felt it could impose the censorship that was from world war i and world war ii era of the korea. with that censorship and journalists would be obligated to run material passed military censors also publishers that hall would be expected to take a patriotic look what was going on with the overseas commitment when i got to vietnam 1962 i was joined by a group of young american journalist. unique at that time, all graduates from ivy league universities. probably the first to enter the craft of news reporting in they took a much more pragmatic approach