“While a major focus of this book is fear mongering by journalists and others, throughout the chapters that follow I take note as well of reporters who bring to light serious dangers about which the public hears little from politicians,… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
“Disproportionate coverage in the news media plainly has effects on readers and viewers. When Esther Madriz, a professor at Hunter College, interviewed women in New York City about their fears of crime they frequently responded with the phrase “I saw… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
“Flash forward to the 1980s and 1990s and it is not foreign fascists we have to put out of our minds in order to… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
“In nearly every episode of fear mongering I discussed in the previous chapters as well, people with fancy titles appeared. Hardly ever were they… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
“While a major focus of this book is fear mongering by journalists and others, throughout the chapters that follow I take note as well… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
“Disproportionate coverage in the news media plainly has effects on readers and viewers. When Esther Madriz, a professor at Hunter College, interviewed women in… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
“Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
“In addition, when a neighborhood's crime victims are portrayed as victims-sympathetically and without blame, as humans rather than as statistics-people living in other parts… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
“Michelle Obama, spoke to supporters in rural Iowa about why she agreed to let her husband run. “Barack and I talked long and hard… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
“The more things improve the more pessimistic we become. Violence-related deaths at the nation’s schools dropped to a record low during the 1996—97 academic… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
“By the time George Bush’s re-election campaign got under way in 2004, there was little doubt he’d make terrorism the focal point of all… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
“In TV newsrooms, if it bleeds it leads remains the watchword. A study of 559 newscasts in twenty television markets across the United States… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
“Television news programs survive on scares. On local newscasts, where producers live by the dictum “if it bleeds, it leads,” drug, crime, and disaster… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
“Fear mongers make their scares all the more credible by backing up would-be experts’ assertions with testimonials from people the audience will find sympathetic.” — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
