h Zippo lighters and also included strong commentary on how villagers were treated. This report generated and angry reaction from Lyndon Johnson. In 1968 during the Tet offensive viewers of NBC witnessed Col Nguyn Ngoc Loan blow out the brains of his captive in a Saigon street. Further reports in 1972 during the North Vietnamese spring offensive showed the aftermath of a mistaken napalm strike in which South Vietnamese planes mistook their own fleeing civilians for North Vietnamese troops. As the war began to move into urban areas suffering and destructions appeared regularly on television.
             Journalist began to grow skeptical of claims of progress and the course of the war was presented more as an eternal recurrence than a string of decisive victories. The human cost of the war became a focal point of most reports. For example a report by Ed Rabel of CBS was aired about a soldier killed by a land mine. The report was an interview of his comrades in battle, who told of their feelings about the death and about a war they thought was senseless.
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