Why the negativity?

I think people started looking at television in a negative way, because they didn't know who or what information they could trust. Such as the game shows who were cheating there way through to make people excited about the prospect of the game and maybe even becoming a contestant. Then others who were said to be communist running away until the Faulk case was settled. Then they dared to show their faces again, how sad they had to go through that kind of event. Another negative aspect was the attack on Cuba that the U.S. was trying to persuade people they were not part of. After being affected by these crooked events, how did they know what they could or could not trust?