| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

The Weekly War: Newsmagazines and Vietnam. By James Landers. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. 298 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1534-3.)
James Landers, a Vietnam War veteran and former newspaper reporter and editor, has artfully woven together analysis of about nine hundred newsmagazine accounts of the U.S. war in Vietnam, interviews with media and government personnel, and war statistics and histories into a coherent work that will be of interest to both historians and media studies scholars. Complementing studies of television and newspaper coverage, The Weekly War makes a significant contribution to the literature on media and the Vietnam War.	1
Focusing on articles appearing in Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report from March 1965 through January 1973, Landers compares the three magazines' approaches to the war and examines their shifts in tone as the war progressed. Arranged thematically, separate chapters document the Cold War framing of early news stories, the operating procedures and organizational contexts of each magazine, stories of soldiers in combat, myopic assessments of American weaponry, a shift from determination to doubt and despair, coverage of the "war at home" (pp. 199 ff.) and conflicting assessments of "our" Vietnamese and the adversary (pp. 225 ff.).	. . .

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