“A long-haired teenager summed up the importance of Woodstock very simply: “People,” he said, “are finally coming together. » In August 1969, the music world changed following a three-day festival known as the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Woodstock was an iconic moment for the generation of young people in the United States at the time. Despite this, media coverage of the event did not always do justice to the grand celebration and all it represented. The approach taken by some of the country's major newspapers and magazines to covering the news has not really emphasized the importance of the cultural significance of the event. The media instead chose to focus on logistical issues surrounding the event, such as crowd size and public safety concerns, a conventional media routine that was common in reporting on major events at the time. This type of reporting proved inadequate for coverage of Woodstock. This inadequacy affected the way Woodstock was perceived. Woodstock is considered one of the major events of the 1960s, but its media coverage did not do justice to all that the event represented. Woodstock changed the music world, and the way mainstream media structured coverage of the festival contributed to that change. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was a weekend-long festival held in rural Bethel, New York from August 15 to 15. August 18, 1969. As described in an August 1969 issue of Life magazine, "The original plan was an outdoor rock festival, 'three days of peace and music' in the Catskill village of Woodstock." What the young developers got was the third largest city in New York State, with a population of 400,000 (give or take 100,000), a Max Y location...... middle paper......the generation of young people has reached critical mass. for three days in a rural New York meadow. As such, it had considerable political implications and could be interpreted as posing a threat to the ruling elites of society. Thus, by focusing on negative and threatening images, such as widespread drug use and deteriorating public safety at Woodstock, media coverage tended to reinforce the establishment social order. At the same time, media coverage posed worrying questions about the mindset of Woodstock attendees and therefore seemed to marginalize the political position of the younger generation.” Those who attended the weekend festival said Woodstock changed their lives, and some academics and journalism experts noted that the way the media approached popular culture also changed significantly with coverage of all three days. of the festival..