Barry Glassner

“Flash forward to the 1980s and 1990s and it is not foreign fascists we have to put out of our minds in…

— Barry Glassner

“In nearly every episode of fear mongering I discussed in the previous chapters as well, people with fancy titles appeared. Hardly ever…

— Barry Glassner

“While a major focus of this book is fear mongering by journalists and others, throughout the chapters that follow I take note…

— Barry Glassner

“Disproportionate coverage in the news media plainly has effects on readers and viewers. When Esther Madriz, a professor at Hunter College, interviewed…

— Barry Glassner

“Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and…

— Barry Glassner

“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…

— Barry Glassner

“Michelle Obama, spoke to supporters in rural Iowa about why she agreed to let her husband run. “Barack and I talked long…

— Barry Glassner

“The more things improve the more pessimistic we become. Violence-related deaths at the nation’s schools dropped to a record low during the…

— Barry Glassner

“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…

— Barry Glassner

“In TV newsrooms, if it bleeds it leads remains the watchword. A study of 559 newscasts in twenty television markets across the…

— Barry Glassner

“Television news programs survive on scares. On local newscasts, where producers live by the dictum “if it bleeds, it leads,” drug, crime,…

— Barry Glassner

“Fear mongers make their scares all the more credible by backing up would-be experts’ assertions with testimonials from people the audience will…

— Barry Glassner