Chunk # 2 (pg. 68- 127) The Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner

Barry Glassner asserts that most of are fear is based on the wrong things, meaning wrong topics, false statistics, and sometimes even false stories. Glassner believes we cut funding on education, medical, and the homeless, instead of taking responsibility we take it out on the youth by giving unbelievable sentences to are youth and harder time and locking them up with adults when they are still young children who come from unloving familes, and maybe even facing phsychiatric problems. We then talk about "crack babies" instead of cracking down on drug dealers and illegal drugs. The media then try to make us believe that american childrens have children themselves, instead telling whats real that most thirteen and fourteen year olds can't bear children yet. Instead the media wants us to believe are youth are monsters and are becoming monster moms. The media then trys to make Americans fear blackmen, based on rappers lyrics and staged actions for media attention. Americans fear black men because the media attention focus on the lyrics of rappers, drug dealing, instead of looking at the true personality of the individual instead of the gender and race as a whole. We as a people,public, and media fail to talk about the real problems of prescription drug abuse that happens almost daily, instead of campaigns to spread awareness about the abuse of prescription drugs.


Style :
How does Barry Glassner use of statistics effectively help the reader understand his argument and main purpose of this text?

Application:
Does the knowledge you learn about the media, and newspaper change the fears you live with or does it make you feel that america's media, newspaper, and tabloids are corrupt?