How the media amplify fear

Out of our television sets comes an unending stream of crime news, a steady drip of foulness and contamination. The filthy slime of family violence, madness, abuse of helpless children and "diminished responsibility" floods our TV sets every day. It eats up whole newspaper pages (a whole page, an "honour" for a few). It is invading the "protected time bands" of TV, saturating the minds of young television viewers of all ages with the wickedness of murky, unmentionable events.

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