If It Bleeds, It Leads: Understanding Fear-Based Media (2011)
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If It Bleeds, It Leads: Understanding Fear-Based Media (2011)
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#2> 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.