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Panic Attacks: Media Manipulation and Mass Delusion

Name: Panic Attacks: Media Manipulation and Mass Delusion
ISBN: 9780752494708

By
- Robert E. Bartholomew
- Hilary Evans
Publisher
- The History Press

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Language: English
Format
Category: Non-Fiction

**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.

Release date

Ebook: 19 August 2004