Tet revisited

Only after many, many years went by did it become known that the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, though characterised by most in the media (especially by Walter Cronkite) as having been a disastrous loss for U.S. forces, was actually a huge military victory. But because of the media's attempts to hold it up as an example of why America couldn't win in Vietnam, popular opinion for the war took a nosedive leading to the eventual withdrawal of American troops in a less than victorious ending.

Ann Coulter has a great article here that asks whether the media's coverage of Iraq hasn't veered towards Tet like coverage.