El discurso en las fotografias de guerra del conflicto de Vietnam desde 1965 hasta 1975 oublicadas por The Associated press y la opinión pública

Abstract

The media, such as the radio, the press and television, were in charge of disseminating different historical events such as wars since the last century, generating public opinion among the citizens of all the societies that have access to this information. In the research we analyze the discourse in the war photographs of the Vietnam conflict from 1965 to 1975 published by The Associated Press and the influence they had on the American society of the time. In order to know the power or the impact that these photographs had and have, the following objectives were proposed: Analyze the discourse in the war photographs of the Vietnam conflict from 1965 to 1975 published by The Associated Press, analyze the influence of public opinion on the speech of said photographs, and choose the photographs according to their most relevant themes. To achieve the aforementioned objectives, a survey of 9 questions was conducted to the 16 teachers of the Social Communication career of the Technical University of Ambato, who responded in the great majority that the mass media, in this case the written press, manipulate the public opinion with the contents they disseminate, and this can change the course of an event as important as a war. All this shows that people know about the media manipulation that exists in the photographs that are published, and therefore, new alternative sources of information are needed to find out about the facts.