Why did positive government reports about the progress in vietnam suffer from a "credibility gap"?

During the Vietnam War, correspondents reported on terrifying truths in the area of operations, which often contradicted the positive and complimentary reports of United States leaders, creating a "credibility gap."

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religion played a major role in the american revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the british--an assurance to the average american that revolution was justified in the sight of god. the revolution strengthened millennialist strains in american.