Mules, missiles, and McCarthy: CNN's Cold War [Series]

From: International Journal | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

THE CASUAL VIEWER of CNN's 24-part Cold War series will come away convinced of at least three things: nuclear missiles are horribly dangerous, Joseph McCarthy was nearly as bad as Joseph Stalin, and American mules are much bigger and stronger than Greek mules. This last bit of information is worth noting because Cold War seems to think it was important: in a episode ostensibly devoted to the Marshall Plan and the origins of the cold war in the late 1940s, the producers spent more than a few baffling minutes of airtime on Greek peasants who attested firmly that the mules sent from the United ...

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