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 But through his intimate sketches of the activists and his own experience
 as a fellow marcher,we do see images of greatness, of self-sacrifice and {{pg|484|485}}
+patriotism. Most important, Mailer, as narrator/protagonist, gives Americans
+outside the march a sense of what it was to be a demonstrator.
+One of Mailer’smain tasks as an author is to acquaint his readers with the
+character of the marchers themselves, so a primary concern of ''Armies'' is media bias as it affected the American public’s sentiments about the acts of resistance happening all around them. But the mainstream press was hawkish:
+before the Tet Offensive in January of 1968, “not a single major newspaper
+or television network call[ed] for the end to the war."{{sfn|Streitmatter|2001|p=197}} In fact, the mainstream media plainly opposed the anti-war effort “in the heady days early in the war when American correspondents doubled as government handmaidens, they openly condemned anti-war protesters as traitors."{{sfn|Streitmatter|1997|p=201}} This was the atmosphere in which
+Mailer attempted to tell a moving tale of the anti-war movement.
 ===Citations===