The effect of media on political processes in the confinement of a particular state is truly ample. Affecting the way in which people perceive the motivations behind the choices made by politicians, media frames any event in a way that makes people lose a certain amount of objectivity (Wiest & McNab, 2015). Therefore, journalism defines the outcomes of a political confrontation to some extent. Nowhere is the identified phenomenon as blatantly clear as in the journalistic coverage of the notorious Vietnam War. Due to the air of hopelessness and lack of purpose, which newspaper articles about the Vietnam War captured, people started perceiving the Vietnam War as a battle that was both ethically misguided and ultimately pointless. Although not all American newspapers pictured the war in an unfavorable light, the majority of media sources conveyed the air of hopelessness and frustration, which took its toll on the American population ultimately. The way in which the media depicted the situation in Vietnam was also in striking contrast with the attitudes in the American government. The feigned optimism of the government contradicted dry and disappointing facts provided by war journalists, thus creating the setting in which American residents realized the falsehood of the state political strategy. In addition, media made the depictions of the Vietnam War devastatingly graphic, causing Americans to realize that the government concealed a vast amount of information from them. Feeling deceived, disappointed by the government’s actions, and completely disillusioned about the intentions of the then president of the United States (U.S.), Lyndon B, Johnson, American citizens realized that the Vietnam War was a giant mistake (Wiest & McNab, 2015). The war claimed the lives of thousands of soldiers, leaving the United States. socially and economically devastated. Therefore, the media served as a means of revealing the truth and helping people realize that the American government’s strategy was intrinsically flawed at the time. The Vietnam War was a military conflict that took place In Vietnam and involved a vast number of countries. The confrontation started with the United States allowing France to regain political and economic control over Vietnam since it used to be a French colony. After France began to stifle the development of the Communist movement in Vietnam, the USSR intruded, assisting Vietnamese Communists. The United States, in turn, focused on preventing the further rise of the Communist movement in Vietnam and supported South Vietnam extensively. In retrospect, the powers of the U.S. Army, South Vietnam, and anti-communist allies could have won the war due to the superiority in numbers. However, the fatal flaw that defined the futility of the allies’ endeavors concerned the lack of understanding of the cultural context in which U.S. troops had to fight. Numerous cultural conflicts sparked by the condescending manner in which American soldiers treated Vietnamese troops caused the lack of cooperation and comradely (Wood, 2016). Moreover, the extent to which the war was exposed to the public eye by the media contributed to developing a negative attitude towar