Saturday, August 28, 2010

How does it profit the media when something like the tuberculosis """scare""" comes up


How does it profit the media when something like the tuberculosis """scare""" comes up?
Does fear help their ratings? Are the news managers telling the people creating news programs "More fear! More panic!"? Has the major media become a pack of irresponsible phobia-mongers? I know their story is "We don't make the news, we just report it". But the question is about emphasis and urgent/panicked tone which is so pervasive and extreme these days that its really laughable.
Media & Journalism - 2 Answers
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1 :
It keeps everyone's attention on non-essential information and off what is really going on right under their noses. Quite a cute trick, don't you think???
2 :
So a rare, deadly and contagious strain of TB is present in the U.S. now, and it's NOT something to be concerned about? The people who sat around this guy on two separate flights may be infected and not even know. Stories like this help the public as well as the media. People buy the papers to read the story, and get information they may need to know as well



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