Read the scenario.The nightly news played a big role in shaping public opinion on the Vietnam War. In the early years of the war, TV coverage centered on battle maps and statistics. The human cost of the war was seldom shown. In the late 1960s, television coverage changed as reporters began to distrust government statistics. Also, images from the Tet Offensive cast doubt on the government’s claim that the United States was winning the war. In 1968, Walter Cronkite, the anchor of CBS Evening News, returned from a tour of Vietnam. He declared his belief that the war would end in negotiation, not victory. Public support for the war began to drop.