Convincing anyone to do anything requires presenting one or more good reasons for it --- not reasons against not doing it --- and being very nice in the process (no whining). No one "needs" what you are asking for, so don't try to go that way. My personal view is that no bedroom should ever have a TV in it, so you don't exactly have my sympathy.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.