The press was staying in Saigon with plenty of booze and hookers. The vast majority of the press simply rewrote Army press releases and sent them on. After Tet they realized that the Army was leading them on and they turned on the Army.
No one is innocent in the Vietnam debacle, except those of us who put our boots on the ground.
Cronkite spun the news form his pro communist ideology. John Kerry blamed the troops for killing baby and war crimes for political gain.. Jane Fonda cashed in on her fathers name to protest. LBJ pulled political manipulation while his wife got rich owning Pacific Architects and Engineers. There were many points of view on what happened. My point of view was from a bunker during TET.
The boots on the ground took the brunt of the hate.