The Vietnam conflict is often referred to as the “first television war.” ... They argue that the media's tendency toward negative reporting helped to undermine support for the war in the United States while its uncensored coverage provided valuable information to the enemy in Vietnam.
It was "The Lonely Crowd" that analyzed the 1950s as a culture of conformity, since this was during a time in the United States when a "counterculture" was forming--pushing back on the established social and economic status quo.
