Summary Chapter 2 Glassner

Journalists report sensationally that children are targeted by strangers or pedophiles everywhere, children are involved in crimes, and children pull the trigger at themselves to end their lives. Parents, of course, uneasiness rush to prepare for protection tools for their children. Glassner, however, analyzes that these tragedies have a background that is the prime cause of these tragedies. Journalists neglect the real fears of children - poverty, family abuse, lack of education, housing, food and security in the news. The news of children’s crimes are exaggerated and lead us the wrong anxiety because actual risks, such as guns, are

In the article “On Message”, Samuel talks about how the media focuses in competing with each other. He went on to talk about how they fail to research into details but, publish any news that comes up. “Chris Plante is shooting down a rumor that originated on debka.com” (60), this quote tells us how Plante is about to give out this rumor out to the world, without even knowing if it is true or not. The media focuses on certain parts of stories and ignore others and as quoted “As long as Bin Laden is there, he is the story”(59), tells that certain parts of stories are left out and others are reported to favor or make us look like the good

This article counts several ways of how the media use fear and how it effects the people. The article Barry Glassner made, Narrative Techniques of Fear Mongering, was made back in the early 2000s. what this article talks about is how “fear mongers deploy narrative techniques to normalize what are actually errors in reasoning and the most common of these consists in the christening of isolated incidents as trends” (Barry Glassner). Essentially he talks about how the media use some big scare to brain wash use people to be twice as scared of situations that could happen in the futre.

2. In the 21st century exposure to media is an everyday event for most of us. Even at the grocery store, we see magazines and newspapers with eye-catching headings that may not be true. Also, the news is everywhere, and with technology on the rise, we even get news alerts on our phones. The media has taken over society. Most of the stories we read about seem to be true but in reality, are they giving a true insight of what is actually happening? Some of the stories cause people to become blindfolded from reality. This is because the stories that people read or see have a profound impact on shaping our reality rather they are true or not. We see the news about events that are going on in the world; rather they are catastrophic events or devastating events that were done by humans.

Stories sometimes are true and sometimes they are false but it is up to the public to believe in what is right and what is wrong. In this day and age, where information is available at the touch of a mouse, it’s not surprising that the media is a particularly dominant and powerful

Which school has been targeted today? Should I help my child put on a bulletproof vest? Almost every day when we turn on the TV, there is a news about shooting. We are glued to the TV screen, feeling like living the extremely dangerous era. However, Barry Glassner, sociologist, claims that our sense of fear has been exaggerated intentionally, and we have remained enormously fearful for questionable dangers. Glassner’s book The Culture of Fear discloses that journalists, politicians and organizations handle our sense of fear to grab our attention and profit from our anxiety, giving actual cases. Glassner showcases crimes in the news that hid facts behind fictional things, that employed temporary crimes to avoid reporting existent crimes, and that were reported in the way

“We often fear the wrong things…” (Glassner 47), basically the point Glassner is trying to get across is that society is too busy worrying about the subjects we shouldn't, but are aren't worrying about the actual things that can cause harm. Glassner later discusses about media and how its uses fear and distress to attract viewers to read their articles, in which for example Glassner states, ““murder rate declined by 20 percent, the number of murder stories on network newscasts increased by 600 percent”. By stating this quote, Glassner is portraying to readers to not only shows how the news media turns a positive into and negative , and by publishing an abundance of

School shootings have become well known around the world due to the coverage by the media. . These shootings are a serious concern and have parents constantly concerned about their child’s safety when they are at school and also have students thinking twice about any unusual or suspicious behavior. The media appears to play a large part in school shootings and it is important to analyze the deviant behaviors of the shooters in these horrific instances and the fear they create in schools. Does the media play a large part in school shootings or does the media play a large part in the sensationalism of school shootings and the fear they create both in schools and with parents?

For this current event, I chose to read the article titled, Widespread media coverage contributing to rise in mass shootings, say psychologists, by Jess Staufenberg. In this article Jess elaborates on the idea proposed by psychologists that giving mass shooters the fame they desire in the media is contributing to their rise.

The article “The Culture of Fear Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things” by Barry Glassner describes the problems of the American news media. The issues presented in this article is the fear business by news media to present problems to rile up average Americans. Fear in this article is meant to describe how we feel about diseases and crime based on the news we receive. The disease aspect of the article is interesting because it accurately describes the health scares that occur more and more frequently as stated,” Besides worrying disproportionately about legitimate ailments and prematurely about would-be diseases, we continue to fret already refuted dangers” (Xii). News media continue to place spotlight on very rare diseases and freak

Many times, the media is the main cause in contributing and encouraging the creation of crime myths. The mass media have responsibilities to update the public on the activities occurring domestically and internationally. Stories or reports have to grab the attention of viewers and often times this is accomplished through methods of dramatizing and sensationalizing stories. Instead of stating solely fact, mass media reports have become bias opinions, allowing for it to evolve into more of an entertainment business rather than news.

As discussed in class, one of the most influential agencies of socialization is the media. The way we see ourselves or the way other people see us come from what we are told by others and what we tell ourselves. In the Better world handbook, the chapter on media states that “the way we think and act in our daily lives is inextricably linked to the information we receive about the world” (Jones, Haenfler and Johnson). The chapter continues to discus how information delivered to us can be bias and this raises the issue on who controls the media and what we see through it. The problem with this could be that that whoever controls the media does not necessary have our best interest in mind and the content that is transmitted through the media is profit driven. . In the article “Lies my teacher told me: Everything your American history textbook got wrong” gives a perfect accept of how easy it is for information to get omitted based on what people what you to know and what they don’t want you to know. From a young age, people decide what they want you to know, so that they can decide on what they want you to think about certain topics whether its American history or something else, its like the

Over the past couple of decades, school shooting have seemed to occur often-- continuously shocking the nation and reminding everyone that no community is exempt from such horror. One main contributor of this hysteria is found within the media. At the catalyst of this hysteria, lies the horrific Columbine shooting in 1999. Since then, school shootings have received ample coverage-- some argue that this has romanticized school shootings, others argue that is has provided condemning coverage of the often insane perpetrators. In the first year after the Columbine shooting, over 10,000 articles were written about the event, likely setting the stage for the nationwide desire for constant coverage of such events (Elsass et al, p. 445-446).

In today¡¦s society journalism is under close scrutiny and is losing its credibility. Sensationalism effects both those who receive it in addition to those who report it. This essay will review the history of sensationalism in the media, clearly demonstrate how sensationalism effects ours views on journalism, and confront the ethical dilemmas that journalists must face between reporting objectively and reporting what sells. This will be accomplished by investigating various sources, including articles published on the Internet as well as those published in newspapers and magazines.

Thousands of our nation's men and women were fighting for their country, yet the media limited the amount of information that they chose to pass on to the public. Each day the media is faced with the choice of making decisions of what news to pass on, when that news could make a significant difference in someone's life, or in the fate of our nation.