The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
Barry Glassner
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Well, this is the message our media keeps shoving down our throats, according to claims by Glassner. In The Culture of Fear, he spins through a lot of different scenarios that we, as Americans, have been trained to fear. For each one, he drags out statistics and a point of view that reduces the boogyman to what it ought to be: an example of ordinary life, a standard deviation, blown out of proportion.
