How the media uses scare tactics to portray potentially negative news 54 Articles

by Dawn M. O'Neal

If you love the thought of coming home after a long day at work, easing into your favorite chair, and relaxing awhile before dinner, well, snap out of it, because the news will soon be on! The news is on again and you w...read more

by Sophie London

Breaking News: 2006 was one of the safest years in aviation history, with the number of crashes at a 43-year low. "Airline travel, safer? That's not what I've heard," you're probably thinking. And no wonder. Michael Moo...read more

by Rebecca Pierson

The truth is not always convenient. While Al Gore exposed how certain facts can be undesirable for society to accept, truth can also be too inconvenient for a news agency to relay - or for a consumer to receive - due to o...read more

by Seth Hymes

As a former video editor for Fox News Channel, I've seen the process of creating the news first hand. I say "creating" the news, rather than "reporting", because ever news is manufactured in the same fashion as a cop drama...read more

by Ron Jones

Two local news helicopters collide as they chase a non-story hoping to catch the video shot of the day. Sensationalizing a non-story has become so mainstream that television and radio stations don't even give a second thou...read more

by Paul Schingle

They wouldn't use scare tactics if it didn't work. As much as people complain that there's no "good" news on television anymore, the bad news is apparently what the people want. And what's the best way to draw them in? ...read more

by Marcus Brooks

During New Orlean's Katrina disaster, USA Today newspaper and Fox News Channel committed grave sins. Instead of reporting the tragedy's effect on the whole community, they stereotyped white and black and Latino victims. ...read more

by Duane Gundrum

Terrorists are not the only fear mongers in the U.S. these days. No, this new group of fear mongers is much more sinister, and it does its job just by constantly reminding us of what we really don't want to hear: They tell...read more

by Nick Bulka

Many people can write an article explaining why they think the media uses scare tactics to portray potentially negative news. The writers who drone on about the value of fear in persuasion all essentially agree on one poin...read more

by J.R. Dumas

Be Afraid (and Buy Soap) We as citizens of the United States, live in a time when information isn't just more available to us whenever we want it, and it's also available when we don't. The media, ranging from sources as...read more

by Phil Hill

"Great. Family wiped out in crash tragedy. Love it. We've got three hours for the interviews, photos. Let's get cracking." Kevin East's mood was somewhat more upbeat than half an hour previously. Then he was struggling fo...read more

by Chris Handy

Over the course of 16 years, only recently have I taken an interest in the news. Why is it though that there is no unbiased news network on TV anymore? You have the leftist channels like CNN trying to scare the pants off o...read more

by Will Kester

"How the media uses scare tactics to portray potentially negative news" Be afraid; be very afraid. After all, isn't fear the strongest emotion we have? If you were a reporter who wanted to get the best ratings, wouldn'...read more

by Kelly Radtke

It seems as if the news make you think the world is coming to an end. Funny isn't it? When in all actually the world just beings over and over again. With every generation there is a new way of life, style and what would b...read more

by Alexander D

"Hurricane Terrorizes the entire region" "Terrorism Rating UP" "Officials have commented that the bridge collapse was not an act of terrorism". Terror, it's frightening, it's fear, that's the essence of the word. In our wo...read more

by Christina Scott

See if you can relate to this. It is 5:00 and you are just getting home after a long day at work. You are getting ready to cook dinner while the kids get some homework done. You flip on the news only to find out that a ...read more

by JohnJaySmith

"Your life and your family are in immediate mortal danger! Find out why, tonight at 10." There are many different ways for the media to increase their viewership, or readership. But what is fastest and easiest? Nothing dr...read more

by Sarah Dohl

On September 11, 2001, I was 18-years-old and a freshman in college. I remember walking back from a much-to-early government class to my dorm, passing strangers on the sidewalk that were using phrases like "end of the worl...read more