Panic Attacks
Media Manipulation and Mass Delusion
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Publisher Description
**Examining the ability of the media to whip up a panic and our tendency to fall victim to mass delusion and hysteria. **This title discusses America's "kissing bug" scare of 1899; Seattle's atomic fallout fiasco of 1954; the phantom slasher of Taipei in 1956; Belgium's recent Coca-Cola poisoning scare and the "mad gasser" of Mattoon, and more.
GENRE
History
RELEASED
2004
August 19
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
The History Press
SELLER
Bookwire US Inc
SIZE
759.6
KB