The first pages in " The Culture of Fear" by Barry Grassner reveals and identifies the truth about News reporters, journalists and describing them as "fear mongers" and explaining how they go in the weak minded head and place unnecessary , misplaced fears .The "fear Mongers" Make us buy into these scams and false reports about situations that happen and deflect us from the real problems. In the first chapter he explains how scenarios substitute for facts like the show 20/20 exaggerates "road rage". Grassner refutes that and says that how many time has someone get shot on the road, be real now. He then states that the real problem is in having gun availability. Backing up his purpose which is that the media uses situations to be used ans facts and these false unnecessary fears which is used fill our minds and make us paranoid. He explain all kinds of fears that the society holds today and explains there obscurity and explains how they are false by providing facts to gain credibility. He then talks about crime on the news and they create fear and make people buy home security systems and he states that the U.S waists more money on jails than on higher education. His purpose is to expose the "fear mongers" and there schemes to lure us in to buying unnecessary devices and swaying us from the real problems.
Application/Theme questions:
How can us as a society come down on these social ills to better ourselves and our community?
Clarification question:
How does the media and journalists make us waist money on unnecessary devices that we dont need with the false fears they stick on our heads?
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I believe as a society we came come down on these social ill's b writing letters to newspapers,media, tabloids and make a demand to stop giving in to these small problems and start demanding media, news, and tabloid attention towards the fatal problems in are society.
ReplyDeleteThe media makes us spend money because are society is based on profit rather than reality. They rather profit off of celebrity news, and events that don't happen often. As humans we give in to emotional appeals esil because we are moved based off of emotions rather than logic reasonings.
i think that as a society we can just ignore them. Not completely but face the real fact. if we see something in the world going wrong as in road rage or the crime to just be safe and not be paronoide about every little thing.
ReplyDeleteThe way newspapers and magazine make these stories is just by the profit they make. if there newspapers have more detail "lies" in it people will eb willing enough to read them and buy whateveer it is. Newspapers or magazines dont really care they just care if there stuff is being sold.