So--here is the eminent @JamesFallows writing in 1996, at a very different @TheAtlantic
(ht @SpectralKaiser for the link)
The entire piece is very worth reading as (recent) social history, but I found myself thinking about the opening story yesterday.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/02/why-americans-hate-the-media/305060/ …
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tldr: one and a half American journalists said they wouldn't warn US troops of an ambush if they were embedded with a Viet Cong unit this, in front of a group of military men, one of whom had lost an arm in Vietnam this did not go over well
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Replying to @eigenrobot
well of course they wouldn't, they're on opposing sides
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Replying to @marcoJcosta @eigenrobot
on otherwise unrelated "Definitely A Simulation" news, there was a band formed in Canada under the name "Viet Cong" with a Mike Wallace playing the drums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preoccupations …
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