Barry Glassner
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Today the American media is loaded with articles and news segments about any and all dangers that the American people face. The media loves these stories of fear as they usually get high ratings, and read by millions of Americans who are weary of almost anything; plane flight, terrorists, drugs, evil kids, etc. In “The Culture of Fear”, Glassner touches on many issues and presents the facts about how the media loads their news coverage with negative stories and how they use Fear to get readers and viewers hooked.

Glassner uses the pure facts to debunk media fear mongering by using numbers and not percentages to prove how many reporters exaggerate for effect by doing exactly what I said above, and he explains why percentages can be very misleading and why reporters must use the actually numbers to back up their stories. The book has a very liberal feel (one of the reasons I liked it) but is not at all biased in any way: this book tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but, with cold hard facts. A must Read, especially in times like the ones we are in today.