Media Influence on Our Perception - A.E. #584

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Episode: #584
21 December, 2008
Topic: Moral Panics. Jen talks about perceived threats to social order and its relation to mass hysteria.

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[St37One]

Oprah Winfrey and Moral Panic fit together so well.

Its feelings over facts, and emotionalism.

[GetMeThere1]

Aha! Thanks for busting the myth of the "boiled frog" phenomenon.

[1RadicalOne]

Glasser has a really good point with the "local-vs-international" discrepancy.

[maemorri]

The best part about 9/11 is that more people have died in increased car accidents due to the increase in driving and decrease in flying caused by 9/11 than 9/11 itself. Flying is statistically safer than driving per mile traveled.