Media-attention-seeking tactics did not change government war policy.

Evidence

As the decade wore on, some members of this generation got caught in a perverse feedback loop. The individuals that quite liked media attention sought more of it, consciously or unconsciously adopting tactics that would provoke more coverage. But none of that changed the simple fact that the US government wanted to continue the war in Vietnam, and could afford to treat the demonstrators like a noisy minority (with frequent help from the press). — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 77

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does protest media feedback ever move policy, or only build movement self-reinforcement?
• XREF: connects to: Changing political discourse did not halt material losses on any major front. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 495; Media campaigns cannot substitute for foreign-policy change and breed suspicion when they try — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 1338; Occupy’s greatest effect was a media-driven discursive shift, not policy change — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 267 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Changing political discourse did not halt material losses on any major front. #corroborates (0.85) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 495
• Media campaigns cannot substitute for foreign-policy change and breed suspicion when they try #corroborates (0.82) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1338
• Media agenda-setting shapes policy regardless of journalists’ intentions #complicates (0.82) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1497
• Occupy’s greatest effect was a media-driven discursive shift, not policy change #corroborates (0.80) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 267
• Effective political action depends on mediation, not immediate style. #qualifies (0.72) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 377