The press got all the facts (more or less), it got too many of them, But it never found a way to report meaningfully about death, which of course was really what it was all about (Her
This is a 5-page paper on Dispatches by Michael Herr. It concentrates on the role of the press during the Vietnam War and relates and analyzes how reporters lost track of the actual meaning of war and related the illusion that had been created---even though they knew the actual facts as they saw it. 5 pgs. Bibliography lists 1 source.
