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Show 74 they learned that the content of the paper was being consciously manipulated by some members approach to facilitate publication of false reports. consensus Roberts of the Homefront staff who used the explained that he discovered Homefront staff member typ a ing a story that portrayed an account of a massacre of Vietnamese civilians, supposedly written by a United States serviceman who witnessed the event. member admitted she sidered such Following Roberts' questioning, this creating was need for the paper, a massacres did actually this story to fill justifying staff what she the action by con claiming occur. Although Roberts agreed that indiscriminate killing of Viet civilians namese in was common, Aboveground be factual. he insisted that all The falsified account stories was published never included in the paper; however Roberts and Stocker believed that at least similar account may have been one published in issue five (December, 1969-January, 1970) prior to their discovery. System of Distribution The distribution of Aboveground was limited primarily to Fort Carson, Colorado and nearby Colorado Springs, located approximately publishers of assume ten miles from Fort Carson. personnel, they told that service personnel and the United States Air Force Springs) also city of 140,000 Although the Aboveground conceived of th paper's readership as Fort Carson Army to a saw the writer that it is'correct stationed at Ent Air Force Base Academy (both located near Colorado issues of the paper. A system of hand distribution developed as the basis of Above- |
