The reason why the author brings up Bob Garfield’s findings is to show how people of special interest inflate the numbers and twist the facts to create fear in Americans. Bob Garfield finds the numbers published in Washington post, New York Times and USA Today, about serious diseases in Americans is over exaggerated and blown up. He writes “Either as a society we are doomed, or someone is seriously double dipping”

The evidence used to support “the more things improve the more pessimistic we become” is the fact that even though in 1996 the youth violence crime rate had fallen, Bill Clinton asserted in the following year that “We know we’ve got about six years to turn this juvenile crime thing around or our country is going to be living with chaos.” The same thing was shown everywhere by print media, electronic media, almost everybody. By not laying out the facts or appreciating it, is wrong and unacceptable, but twisting and manipulating it is even worst.

When the real dangers of cancer are blown out of proportion, it can very easily lead to some adverse consequences. Many Americans overestimate the danger and risks involved and are quick to underesti

Anthropologist Mary Douglas found that, in real life every society has infinite quantity of potential dangers to choose from. Societies differ in the type of danger selected o emphasize on moral and cultural things. It could also be selected to criticize disliked groups or institutions. In present situation, terrorism is the danger in the American society. Some people are using Sept-11th for their own interest. Muslims and Islamic institutions are selected to criticized and create fear of terrorism with the intent to benefit the current administration. At the same time, some other groups are also trying to benefit from it. One among those is Zionist Lobby. Her research helps us to understand that fears are also created deliberately to emphasize on certain cultural, moral things or criticize disliked people or institutions.

Debbie Nathan uncovered that in the reports of 1980’s and early 1990’s, about child molestation, abuse, rape and torture, were exaggerated. Many Americans believed that satanic cults were committing these atrocities, where in fact only a few incidents did happen. Some of the abuses were mothers themselves; other women used this to protest against male dominance in general. These allegations allowed o

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