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is hyped-up media coverage of covid-19 doing more harm than good? is it hindering the vaccination effort? there are daily headlinelines a surges in some dates and worries about the delta variant, but largely among those unvaccinated. what are the impacts? one o of the best books i read is the culture of fear by barry glassner. barry, what are the issues with the headlines you re seeing about covid-19, a pandemic that is not over but is in a much more manageable state? absolutely. my criticism is very straightforward. you talked a lot on the show and other times about fox news. when it comes to vaccination, they re kind of the sledge hammer of the truth and of getting the right word out. but i think most of the rest of
okay? the news, the headline is that so far as we know at this point, the vaccines are about 99 percent-plus against hospitalization. get your vaccine, okay? you re showing some right now that i consider some of the worst offenders. look at that. 4,100 people have been hospitalized or died with covid breakthrough infections after vaccination. that s the message that you want to send? i think this is a great challenge. a lot of journalists are watching, a great challenge about how to write headlines and how to make sure the clearest truth is going to get through. barry, thank you very much for coming on the program. thank you to all of us for joining us. we ll see you right back here this time next week. honey! scuff defense. i love our scuff-free life. behr ultra scuff defense.
PLANNING WATCH Los Angeles, like the rest of the United States, is obsessed by crimes perpetrated by people at the bottom of society.
This country has four percent of the world’s population and 22 percent of its prisoners, most of them from poor backgrounds. Petty crime stories are a staple for local news shows and electronic bulletin boards, like NextDoor. Every Amazon package thief, dog poop scofflaw, and mailbox rifler can count on a long list of hostile comments.
Even though petty crimes make for bold headlines and alarmist social media posts, white collar crime, what Woodie Guthrie called
robbing you with a fountain pen, is where the real money lies. For example, the Federal Government spent $125 billion to settle the savings-and-loan bank scandals of the 1980s. One high profile case, Irvine-based Lincoln Savings, ensnared five US senators and sent the lead crook, Charles Keating, to a Federal penitentiary.
The Politics Of Fear In Sri Lanka: Allowing Demagogues To Manipulate The Electorate!
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” – Edmund Burke
During a recent TV Quiz show, a Muslim girl named Shukra Munawwar from Galle won not only two million rupees, but the hearts of millions too. The popular show attracted much social media traction. Innumerable social media in Sinhala not only complimented her for her superb knowledge in history and her command of the Sinhala language, she was also admired for bringing hope in an otherwise gloomy political environment tarred by racism. This is only a token reflection of the level of goodwill and the thirst for peaceful co-existence usually prevalent at the grass root levels in the South. How did this frank aspiration to live in harmony as was seen for more than centuries, became submerged in a cesspit of mistrust and hatred, in Post-Independence Sri Lanka? Why did the usually tolera