The Living Room War Vietnam

The living room war.

The living room war vietnam. This attitude shift was not lost on the pentagon. To succeed they had to do something unprecedented. On site coverage of the war in vietnam.

During world war ii morale was high. Television vietnam grades 10 12 class description. When the media showed the intensity and the chaos of the war with relatively little mediation it helped turn people against the war.

Vietnam is often called the living room war television reduced the space between the battlefield and the viewer. He told viewers that they were seeing something unprecedented a war that television. From 1965 to 1975 television played an unprecedented role in shaping american perceptions of the vietnam war.

The living room war might have been one of the only wars america has truly lost it made the people feel they could not trust their own government with anything and sparked many riots to end the war. The effects of visual media provided a new more personal response by the american public to news events. A picture is worth a thousand words brought the vietnam battlefield into the average american s living room household in living color including the sound effects and seldom censored since the.

So why was vietnam called the first television war. Writer michael arien coined the phrase the living room war to describe the infiltration of visual media into american homes. The term came to be during the vietnam war which was the first war in the united states that was televised and showed clips of what was happening in vietnam essentially bringing the war into american living rooms.

For the first time in american history the news from the front lines was brought straight into the living room.