World television day

First television was set to televise the war .Vietnam did not become a big story on
American television until 1965, but it was a
controversial one from the time that U.S.
military personnel began to play a
significant role in combat in the early
1960s. Officials of both the U.S. and South
Vietnamese governments were extremely
concerned about coverage of the war. Their
criticism at first centered on reporting in
newspapers and magazines and on wire
services, as these news media began sending
full-time correspondents to Vietnam several
years before NBC's Garrick Utley became the
first television journalist based in Saigon,
beginning in mid-1964. Yet even though
their assignments were brief and their
numbers few, TV journalists still found that
South Vietnamese authorities scrutinized
their reporting and sometimes objected to it,
as Utley's colleague, Jim Robinson, learned
during one of his occasional trips to Saigon
while stationed in NBC's Hong Kong bureau.
Offended by one of Robinson's stories,
President Ngo Dinh Diem expelled the
correspondent from the country in
November 1962, despite protests from both
the U.S. embassy and journalists in Saigon.