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Hub Candidate: Vietnam War Media Coverage Hub

Covers: 6-7 concept pages on Vietnam War specific media failures and bounds

Pages to include:

  • Vietnam War Institutional Narrative (meta-frame for all Vietnam coverage)
  • Tet Offensive Media Coverage (major case: accuracy within bounds)
  • Tonkin Gulf Incident Media Coverage (sourcing asymmetry case)
  • Paris Peace Agreements Misinterpretation (authority bias case)
  • Bounds of Controversy (what questions were/weren't asked in Vietnam)
  • Pentagon Information Apparatus (infrastructure enabling Vietnam narratives)
  • Narrative Premise as Meta-Filter (the "defending democracy" frame that made strategic questions unaskable)

Hub structure:

  • Core Concepts: Institutional Narrative, Bounds of Controversy
  • Developed Concepts: Tet Offensive, Pentagon Apparatus
  • Developing Concepts: Tonkin Gulf, Paris Peace, Narrative Premise

Why build: Vietnam War is the primary empirical case study in Manufacturing Consent. These 7 pages trace the specific mechanisms (sourcing, bounds, narrative premise) operating across the war's coverage. A hub organizes the case study arc and shows how filters operated in practice.

Status: Ready for build. All component pages exist with stable content. This hub cross-links with Five-Filter hub (the mechanisms applied to a specific case).