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one could not accuse Mailer of being an outright defender of the counterculture.

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}}

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

One of Mailer’s main 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

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the unfair coverage that the press gave to the actions of the demonstrators

and how "[e]mphasis was put on every rock thrown, and a count was made of the windows broken. (There were, however, only a few.) But there was no

~~specificmention~~ of The Wedge [a brutal crowd control technique,which resulted

specific mention of The Wedge [a brutal crowd control technique, which resulted

in beating of the marchers]. Indeed, stories [of police brutality]

quickly disappeared."{{sfn|Mailer|1988|p=313-14}} This becomes evident as Mailer distinguishes

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 one could not accuse Mailer of being an outright defender of the counterculture.
 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}}
+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
+One of Mailer’s main 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
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 the unfair coverage that the press gave to the actions of the demonstrators
 and how "[e]mphasis was put on every rock thrown, and a count was made of the windows broken. (There were, however, only a few.) But there was no
-specificmention of The Wedge [a brutal crowd control technique,which resulted
+specific mention of The Wedge [a brutal crowd control technique, which resulted
 in beating of the marchers]. Indeed, stories [of police brutality]
 quickly disappeared."{{sfn|Mailer|1988|p=313-14}} This becomes evident as Mailer distinguishes