Living Room War
The vietnam war was the first televised war that became known as the biggest story the news has ever.
Living room war. This attitude shift was not lost on the pentagon. Journalists and broadcasters of the war painted american efforts abroad in an unfavorable light. Vietnam is often called the living room war television reduced the space between the battlefield and the viewer.
Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of america not on the battlefields of vietnam marshall mcluhan montreal gazette may 16 1995 the civil war was the first televised war in american history a living room war. Anti war demonstrations were on the rise and televised throughout the country. The broadening media landscape of 1969 its daily presence in american homes and its effect on public opinion became a staple of our modern media landscape.
On may 31 1967 an abc news anchor frank reynolds introduced a film report from vietnam in an unusual way. He told viewers that they were seeing something unprecedented a war that television. When the media showed the intensity and the chaos of the war with relatively little mediation it helped turn people against the war.