Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

Why I Don't Listen to the Media:

To anyone who is disgusted with local news, can't watch CNN, and would rather read the Economist instead of US News, Time, and Newsweek, this might be the perfect book. The name is sort of a misnomer though. It should be called "Media of Fear". Nonetheless, it reinforces what I've felt all along, that the media and news are not out to report what's informative and worthy, but what is sexy - and that is fear. Even though this was written before 9/11, this is even more poignant now.

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Good critique of mainstream media:

In The Culture of Fear, Glassner largely takes the media to task for reporting on the sensational and shocking, but irrelevant, rather than the real mundane issues. Media reports of airplane crashes, random child abductions, and road rage incidents grab our attention and cause us distress, but Glassner argues the real risks we face are often boring, routine issues that don't grab our attention. In addition, we tend to direct our national concerns, and resources, towards perceived threats that rarely occur,... more info

Be Careful, Junk Science:

The author obviously has an agenda to protect Hollywood. Ill bet he lives in an upscale neighboorhood where all the police have to worry about are cats in trees. He tries to convince the reader that violence in the USA is because of the News. He steers you away from vulgar RAP music, the Gangsta culture, senseless violent movies, schools that are purposely dumbing down kids and the glorification by the media of alternate lifestyles, which are designed to weaken the family structure thus producing more... more info

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