Reddit mentions of The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

This is a great book echoing the sentiment Culture of Fear: Why Americas Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

I stopped watching ALL television back in 2002. I too watched news and investigative journalism. But I quit because:

• Local News is all about fear "are your children being molested at school? News at eleven!" and then at eleven they are all "of course not! where did you get that idea". A culture of fear is good for advertising.
  
• the death of 60 Minutes for me was the network alterations to the cigarette cancer stories
  
• the CONSTANT use by the media of the phrase "connected to Al Qaeda"; anything can be connected to anything, but they never trace those connections- just raise fear
  
• the lying and the sloganeering accompanying the aftermath of 911
  
• I read this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Culture-Fear-Americans-Afraid/dp/B003R4ZBR8

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I stopped watching ALL television back in 2002. I too watched news and investigative journalism. But I quit because:

• Local News is all about fear "are your children being molested at school? News at eleven!" and then at eleven they are all "of course not! where did you get that idea". A culture of fear is good for advertising.
  
• the death of 60 Minutes for me was the network alterations to the cigarette cancer stories
  
• the CONSTANT use by the media of the phrase "connected to Al Qaeda"; anything can be connected to anything, but they never trace those connections- just raise fear
  
• the lying and the sloganeering accompanying the aftermath of 911
  
• I read this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Culture-Fear-Americans-Afraid/dp/B003R4ZBR8

Close. It's actually called Fear Culture, and it involves a hell of a lot more than parents protecting kids from illusory threats.

The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things. Claro que a violência em alguns lugares aumenta, mas é o que dá notícia né? E pegando da review na Amazon:

1. Mass media creates panics & hysterias from a few isolated incidents.
   
2. Anecdotal evidence takes the place of hard scientific proof.
   
3. The experts that the media trots out to make comments really don't have the credentials to be considered an expert.
   
4. Entire categories of people are christened as "innately dangerous" (like the aforementioned teen moms and young black men)

Thanks for taking the time to respond to the now deleted post. I saw it and was too busy to reply. I feel this is an example of someone who listens to the media without putting any critical thought into what they are listening too. The media on the other site is only trying to increase audience and not reporting factual information (I feel their are some exceptions to this such as Democracy Now). I think the book The Culture of Fear does a good job of explaining this and how it impacts our society.