Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 5 views

    Media Manipulation Through Scare Tactics

    Uploaded by

    Dafer M. Enrijo
    The document discusses how media uses scare tactics to manipulate viewers by focusing on unlikely but dramatic stories to garner more attention. It provides examples of how bird flu, plane accidents, and violent video games were exaggerated as threats by the media despite lack of evidence. The goal is to keep viewers engaged but it increases public fear unnecessarily.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Media Manipulation Through Scare Tactics

    Uploaded by

    Dafer M. Enrijo
    5 views2 pages
    The document discusses how media uses scare tactics to manipulate viewers by focusing on unlikely but dramatic stories to garner more attention. It provides examples of how bird flu, plane accidents, and violent video games were exaggerated as threats by the media despite lack of evidence. The goal is to keep viewers engaged but it increases public fear unnecessarily.

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document discusses how media uses scare tactics to manipulate viewers by focusing on unlikely but dramatic stories to garner more attention. It provides examples of how bird flu, plane accidents, and violent video games were exaggerated as threats by the media despite lack of evidence. The goal is to keep viewers engaged but it increases public fear unnecessarily.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    5 views2 pages

    Media Manipulation Through Scare Tactics

    Uploaded by

    Dafer M. Enrijo
    The document discusses how media uses scare tactics to manipulate viewers by focusing on unlikely but dramatic stories to garner more attention. It provides examples of how bird flu, plane accidents, and violent video games were exaggerated as threats by the media despite lack of evidence. The goal is to keep viewers engaged but it increases public fear unnecessarily.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 2

    Media manipulation through scare tactics

    by S.M.Inez
    revised by ME

    John Stossel composed two convincing articles, "Stress Over the Right Things"
    and "The Media Likes Scaring Us," about how American media centers around feeding
    our dread. It isn't is actually to be expected that the news hand-picks stories that are
    interesting however outrageous. The news today is centered around engaging to keep
    the public's limited capacity to focus accomplish their ideal measure of perspectives.
    Regularly these accounts "publicity" up a dread that is genuinely doubtful yet has had a
    couple of events. We see instances of media manipulation through scare tactics in the
    inclusion of bird influenza, plane accidents, also, computer games prompting brutality.

    An illustration of the media "publicity" that Stossel expounded on is how after


    some acts of mass violence, the media regularly centers around how the shooter played
    savage computer games. After one shooting episode, my own family removed some
    "rough" computer games from my siblings and me. My folks thought the news was
    attempting to demonstrate there is a connection between's rough computer games and
    wrongdoing. However, concentrates on showing there is a deficient measure of proof to
    make that association. Stossel clarified in his article that individuals don't ponder
    likelihood, and fears about vicious computer games are a great representation of that.

    In one of his articles, Stossel likewise discussed individuals' inappropriate


    anxiety toward the bird influenza. I was astonished that not a single individual in
    America passed on from the bird influenza, while normal influenza killed several
    thousand. However, the media was covering bird influenza for a long time. The media
    portrayed that bird influenza could kill you all of a sudden. Even though the normal
    influenza is an almost certain fast-approaching danger, my dread can be associated
    with how the media portrays this season's virus versus the more outlandish occasion of
    the bird influenza.

    Source: PSY-225_FiveParagraphTheme_Examples (wisc.edu)


    Stossel additionally raises the subject of plane accidents as opposed to driving a
    vehicle and how the media "builds up" individuals' anxiety toward flying, while
    driving is significantly more perilous. I'm a survivor of being hesitant to fly due to the
    media. It appears like each time I need to go on a plane outing to go visit my
    grandparents in Florida the news shows a shocking tale on how a motor detonates mid-
    flight or a bomb danger was made. Right up 'til the present time, at whatever point the
    plane takes off or hits a few disturbances I take hold of the sides of my seat and hang
    on. In any case, more individuals kick the bucket consistently when riding in a vehicle
    than riding in a plane, and I'm not terrified of riding in a vehicle.

    I was not extremely amazed by Stossel's articles about how the media likes to
    open us to fear. The media like to expound on unlikely yet astonishing stories. Things
    like bird influenza, plane accidents, and computer games causing brutality to outline
    the media's affection for manipulation through scare tactics. Pushing ahead, I desire to
    think fundamentally and dispassionately about the data the media gives me. I need to
    live in less dread.

    Source: PSY-225_FiveParagraphTheme_Examples (wisc.edu)

    You might also like