Today @ 1:00 PM ET: War Journalism from Vietnam to Gaza - How War Coverage Impacts U.S. Foreign Policy
Approaching the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, a cross-generational reflection on media coverage of America's wars.

A half century after the fall of Saigon, a mythology persists that print and TV news reports brought the horrors of war into American living rooms, undermined public support for the war and the military, and contributed to U.S. capitulation. In the 1991 Gulf War, with these memories fresh in the minds of top military brass, the Pentagon sanitized war correspondence into a hyperreal, game-like experience through censorship and General Schwartzkopf’s highly choreographed briefings. The 2003 invasion of Iraq and the long war in Afghanistan employed new methods for controlling the war narrative, as correspondents were embedded with U.S. military units.

This panel will explore the changing nature of war journalism since Vietnam – and what it means for the conduct or termination of wars fought or backed by the United States.
April 2025

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Join us for a timely and important discussion with:

Arnold "Skip" Isaacs

Arnold “Skip” Isaacs is a writer, educator, and the author of "Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia" and "Vietnam Shadows: The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy". He was a reporter, foreign and national correspondent, and editor for the Baltimore Sun. During six years as the Sun's correspondent in Asia, he covered the closing years of the Vietnam war. 

Azmat Khan

Azmat Khan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter with the New York Times whose work grapples with the human costs of war. She is the Birch Assistant Professor at Columbia Journalism School, where she also leads the Li Center for Global Journalism. Her multi-part series in the NYT, "The Civilian Casualty Files," was the culmination of more than five years of reporting.

Thom Shanker (Moderator)

Thom Shanker directs the Project for Media and National Security at George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs. He spent 13 years covering the Department of Defense, national security policy, and combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the New York Times. He co-authored the NYT best seller, "Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda".
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