Panic Attacks
Media Manipulation and Mass Delusion
Published on 19. August 2004
256 pages
978-0-7524-9470-8 (ISBN)
Description
**Examining the ability of the media to whip up a panic and our tendency to fall victim to mass delusion and hysteria. **This title discusses America's "kissing bug" scare of 1899; Seattle's atomic fallout fiasco of 1954; the phantom slasher of Taipei in 1956; Belgium's recent Coca-Cola poisoning scare and the "mad gasser" of Mattoon, and more.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
File size
0,68 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-9470-8 (9780752494708)
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08/2004
The History Press Ltd
€44.76
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- One The Great Moon Hoax of 1835: Tabloid Journalism is Born
- Two 'We're All Going to Die!' The Halley's Comet Scare of 1910
- Three The War of the Worlds Spooks a Nation: How it Happened
- Four How Could it Happen Again? The Remarkable Legacy of the Martian Panic
- Five Media-made 'Monsters': Four Tall Tales and Why People Believed Them
- Six Europe's Mad Cows and Bad Coke: Terror at the Dinner Table
- Seven The New American Witch-hunts: Creating the Sex Abuse Epidemic
- Eight Terrorism Scares - the Phantom Menace
- Nine Primitive Stereotyping: How the Media Created the President Johnson Cult and the 'Lost' Tasaday Tribe
- Ten Protecting Ourselves from Media Manipulation
- Notes
