In the years leading up to the Iraq war, Fox News was the number one most watched news station. CNN was always trailing behind a little bit when compared to Fox. However, once CNN got exclusive coverage on many of the things that were happening in the Iraq war, they got a huge bump in their ratings.
The Iraq war was one of the first wars that Americans were able to watch unfold in real time on their television screens, so of course CNN had a lot more people tuning in to see what was happening. People could see what their family members and friends were seeing. This not only bumped up ratings for CNN, but increased the moral of the United States. Many people at home were seeing the war as video game-like and were impressed with what the U.S. military was capable of.
This amazement with the power that the military had led to many changes in common American fashion and technology. People wanted to buy Jeeps, which were previously only seen as military vehicles, and games and movies were being made about the war. There was a sort of fashion that came from the Iraq war that still hasn’t left the American people. Who knows if or when people would’ve gotten so infatuated with a war if it weren’t for CNN’s ability to cover this war thoroughly.
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