Skeptic Check: Feeling Risky
Big Picture Science
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The Responsibility of the Media
Media theorist George Gerbner coined the phrase mean world syndrome and he was referring to research he did about what people thought of the world in which they lived. He found that if we live in a world that we think is full of risks crime let's say terrorists immigrants taking our job, right? We tend to overemphasize those risks as big boogie men. The media have more of a responsibility to be cautious with their alarmism more cautious than they are because there's a harmful effect on society from overdoing it.
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