Has the Media Been Responsible for America Losing Wars?
14th March 2026
As the war in the Middle East rages, let’s take a pause and a walk back through some history of the media and America at war.
Let’s start specifically with the war in Vietnam.
As someone (ahem!) old enough to recall the media coverage of the Vietnam War there is plenty to remember. And specifically to remember the slow and then rapid change of pace with the media of the day going from supportive to questioning to an outright anti-war coverage that was televised nightly into American living rooms.
So much did the media coverage of the war become a hot and then hotter topic in the day that it has even earned its own space in places like the Encyclopedia Britannica.