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The 'Fear Industrial Complex'

View the article here 02/23/2007 By JOHN STOSSEL and NATALIE D. JAQUEZ How the Media, Government and Corporate America Bank on the Business of Fear From the faces of missing children on posters that cry "Have You Seen Me?" to public service announcements about cancer and other illnesses; from the terrorist attacks splashed across daily headlines to the reports of mad cow disease and avian flu on nightly newscasts, the media provide the public with no shortage of things to fear. The message is clear: The world is a scary place, and you should be worried. A Time magazine cover in April 2006 said it outright: "Be Worried. Be Very Worried." The media aren't the only purveyors of fear, however. "I think there is a fear industrial complex," said Barry Glassner, author of "The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things," and more recently, "The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 05, 2009 (boomark / email).