TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bartholomew,Robert E.
AU  - Evans,Hilary
TI  - Panic attacks: media manipulation and mass delusion 
SN  - 0750937858 (hbk.) :
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK
PB  - Sutton
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Influence
KW  - Hysteria (Social psychology)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-213) and index; The great moon hoax of 1835: Tabloid journalism is born -- We're all going to die! -- The Halley's cometscare of 1910 -- The war of the worlds spooks a nation: how it happened -- How could it happen again? -- The remarkable legacy of the martian panic -- Media made monsters: Four tall tales and why people believed them -- Europe's mad cows and bad Coke: Terror at the dinner table -- The new American witch-hunts: Creating the sex abuse epidemic -- Terrorism scares -- The phantom of menace -- Primitive stereotyping: How the media created president Johnson Cult and the lost Tasaday tribe -- Protecting ourselves from media manipulation
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