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What was the significance of television in the vietnam war?.

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The Vietnam War was one of the first wars where there was no media censorship. The media was allowed to report anything from the war. Television reduced the space between the battlefield and the viewer. When the media showed the intensity and the chaos of the war with relatively little mediation, it helped turn people against the war.

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