Woops, I didn’t mention that took place in Vietnam.
Dan Rather was another in country journopuke that never missed a chance to promulgate US failure there.
The media people I saw in Vietnam were bearded & hippie looking. We were flying in & out of An Loc and stood down for a 1 hr break. They came along and started asking questions. Crewmen just stood & stared silently at them until they shrugged & went away.
It had sunk in that the media saw the North Vietnamese as the underdogs. Jane Fonda was in Hanoi that week IIRC.