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A 4 page essay that discusses gun control issues. Filmmaker Michael Moore in Bowling for Columbine and author Barry Glassner in Culture of Fear (1999) take the stance that the American culture exits within an unrealistic climate fear due to the sensationalism of media coverage, which is designed to attract attention, and not necessarily represent the reality of contemporary US society. Both Moore and Glassner support this position, and Moore uses it to argue for gun control. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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within an unrealistic climate fear due to the sensationalism of media coverage, which is designed to attract attention, and not necessarily represent the reality of contemporary US society. Both Moore
and Glassner support this position. Glassners book cites numerous examples where the American people have been encouraged to harbor fears that are not grounded in current reality. For example,
Glassner cites a study by Harvard professors Robert Blendon and John Young, who performed a meta-analysis of previous research, which showed that the majority of people base their opinions on
the prevalence of drug abuse on the media, not on personal experience. Most individuals indicate that drug abuse does not exist in their families, and the vast majority have little
or not contact with the drug culture. Therefore, the concern over drug abuse has its origins in media coverage, not in the reality of its prevalence in American life. l
As this suggests, Glassners basic stance is that the news media sensationalizes all negative events. As proof, Glassner cites the fact that while crime rates declined between 1990 and 1998
by 20 percent, the number of murder stories covered by television increased 600 percent. Another instance where news media reporting is widely inaccurate and sensationalized is when Glassner discusses the
incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this happens more than you might think. While the
reporter handling this segment, Arnold Diaz, noted in the report that out of 27 million surgeries each year, this circumstance arises only roughly a 100 times, the effect of this
fact is immediately negated by interviewing a woman who was scarred due to such a fire. Moore adopted Glassners stance on fear-mongering in his film and uses this stance
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