Bad News Syndrome
- Bad News: as stated by George Gerbner; "Bad news can in fact persuade people that the world is much more dangerous than it is….people who watch a lot of television see the world as much more threatening and filled with menace than those who watch less do." (3, Slick Spins and Fractured Facts: How Cultural Myths Distort the News)
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