AP: Media Had Wide Access in Vietnam War

Are we surprised?? What great timing to release this info now ...

NEW YORK (AP) -

The news media's ability to cover the Vietnam War without censorship was unlike anything that has been seen since, correspondents who covered that conflict for The Associated Press said during a reunion.

"We had relationships with officers and generals that are totally foreign to reporters trying to cover Iraq today, absolutely in a fantasy world," said Peter Arnett, who spent 13 years in Vietnam for the news cooperative from 1962 to 1975.

"The military was remarkable in Vietnam - they not only didn't try to censor us, they made every accommodation to us," said Richard Pyle, who was AP's bureau chief in Saigon from 1970-1973. "There's never been a situation quite like that anywhere."

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/jun/27/062703914.html

I knew foreign correspondents - and part of the reason so many journalists are embedded these days is because the military didn't want that kind of coverage again.

when I was a kid, hoping to see my dad's face among the US soldiers fighting in Nam ...