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A comment on If It Bleeds, It Leads: Understanding Fear-Based Media (2011).

Re:If It Bleeds, It Leads: Understanding Fear-Based Media (2... by DrHilarius on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:07PM (#29587210)
> The success of fear-based news relies on presenting dramatic anecdotes in place of scientific evidence, promoting isolated events as trends, depicting categories of people as dangerous and replacing optimism with fatalistic thinking.
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