“Television news came of age on the eve of Vietnam. The CBS and NBC evening news broadcasts took their present form in September, 1963, expanding from fifteen minutes to half an hour…The first exclusive stories the expanded shows were able to broadcast had to do with Vietnam…Two years later, American troops went to war under the glare of the television spotlight. Vietnam was America’s first true televised war.”

-from The “Uncensored War”: The Media and Vietnam, by Daniel C. Hallin

• What was the process by which Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young wrote and recorded “Ohio”? 
• Why did they scrap their top-selling single to record a protest song? 
• What does this process, and the speed with which they executed and distributed the recording, tell us about protest music’s relevance and potential impact?​​