I'm not sure what text you are asking about, but I certainly agree with the narrator's statement. It sounds like the narrator is commenting on how highly televised the Iraq and Vietnam Wars were. The Vietnam War was the first war to be regularly and extensively broadcast on television. Previously, people who were not on the front lines of military conflict only learned about the war through letters, newspapers, radio programming, and perhaps a photograph. It was really revolutionary that so soon after televisions became a common household appliance in the United States, these devices could be used to show people at home the kind of conflict their nation was engaged in. We can consider that there were both positive and negative affects from this. Televising the war certainly made people on the home front more aware of the realities of war, but it may have served to desensitize the American public to the violence they were seeing.
The Iraq War was similarly highly televised, but this has received much criticism in years past. Some people feel that the televising of the Iraq War was not intended to give the general public the facts. Instead, it has been argued that what viewers at home saw on their television sets was a propagandized version of the war intended to justify the conflict and inspire nationalist sentiment among the American people.
What these two wars have in common is not limited to their being made available on television on a regular basis, but that people relied on such broadcasted information to form opinions on how they related to those conflicts.
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