Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis by David L. Altheide

Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis

Social Problems and Social Issues

David L. Altheide

237 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction sociology
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The creative use of fear by news media and social control organizations has produced a "discurse of fear" - the awareness and expection that danger and risk are lurking everywhere. Case studies illustrates how certain organizations and social inst...

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