The NYT’s Alessandra Stanley writes: “Through magnification and repetition, cable news does two opposite things at once: it stokes fear and inures viewers to danger. CNN chose a relatively prosaic rubric for its report, ‘Security Alert,’ while Fox News chose the more vivid title ‘Terror in the Sky.’ (MSNBC went for the wordier ‘Target America: Terror in the Sky.’) All the cable news programs used music and graphics to hype any new development as a ‘breaking news’ bulletin so important it would seem to merit interruptions by the Emergency Alert System.” More…
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