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Panic Attacks: Media Manipulation and Mass Delusion

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.

© 2004 The History Press (Ebook): 9780752494708

Release date

Ebook: 19 August 2004

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