t the best way to grab peoples attention. The news took advantage of that, according to Whitfield. Television became an amazing fuel for anti-Communist sentiments because it in a sense told people what they wanted to see. They were influenced by the government, and in turn influenced the people that influenced the government. The American press was greatly censored and showed the American people the side that people like John Foster Dulles the head of the CIA wanted them to hear. Reporters were expressly pressured not to report the taboo news, like John Hersey who reported on China for Time magazine and then found himself being harassed. Since television had the potential to be so devastating, stints like Kruschevs hour-long interview were not looked happily upon by many patriotic groups. Television greatly affected our culture of this time, according to Whitfeild, by doing such a wide array of tasks as showing us what a correct family should look like and helping end Joe McCarthys reign by exposing how ignorant and malicious he really was. Whitfield feels that television gave us the value of wholesome entertainment that was something which was worth fighting for that the Russians couldnt experience. And this entertainment could also aid in hurting our happy culture instead of just strengthening it as in the case of the rigged quiz shows. A newly found sense of distrust began to emanate our culture from this occurrence. The proverbial classic era of the cold war did begin to end eventually. This began with, according to Whitfield, with the end of Stalins reign and his excesses. Our cultures entertainment began to humanize and even romanticize the whole cold war with the advent of spy stories. Then the advent of a new political climate helped to warm up the war. An older military presence, Eisonhower, was replaced by a much younger and rebellious presence in John Kennedy. Kennedys policies for peace like the nuclear arms meetings helped ...
