In chunk one of "The Culture of Fear", Barry Glassner asserts his claim that the media,tabloids,newspapers, and magazines manipulate are perception of fear by exploiting the least important things. In chapter one, How Fears Are Sold, Glassner supports his claim about the exploitation of road rage and campuses. Glassner believes we focus media and tabloid attention on road rage with exaggerated statistics and stories on road rage instead of drunck driving that kills a trememndous amount of people each year unlike road rage. Then Glassner talkes about schools wanting to be assessed as "Politically correct" instead of facing the bigger issues like racism, sexist behavior, and homophobic behavior in today's schools. Glassner then goes into chapter two, Tall Tales and Overstated Statistics, he goes on saying that the media and the tabloids have forgot the extent and the true nature of the real issues that need to be exploited in the media and news. Glassner says that by exploiting these issues we slip away from the true issues like crime, drug addictions, and child abuse. Glassner believes that Americans have become so afraid of the non- important things that we live in fear of everyday things. Glassner concludes his assertion in chapter three Faculty Diagnoses and Callous cures that we focus on the little things instead of our youth at risk, children with diseases, missing children, and children facing tramatic events. He believes most organizations can't even get the media attention they need in order to spread awareness about these important events. Glassner intended audience are Americans who live in fear, anxiety, and the media, tabloids, newspapers and magazines who spend billions of dollars on these needless worries each year.
Application/Theme question:
Discuss how the media has affected are perception of fear? Is the perception of fear creating non- important / unwanted fear in our society?
Clarification question:
How does are media, newspapers, and tabloids exaggerated statistics affect others views of American society as a whole?
The media affects our perception of fear immensely. Journalists and newscasters present false information to us. Any story that they find they blow it up and make this big story about it just to get money and just like Glassner says the media is like a nerdy boy who gets a date with a hot model. They just get stories and don't even ask questions to correct any mistakes, they just put it out there for many weak minded people to absorb and live under the false , unplaced fears .
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Thats true.Journalists take a pieces of the truth and make it into a big deal. For example nthey say 50% of the world has hiv when reality 50% percent dont. All tehy do is exsagerate.
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