Sandee LaMotte, a writer for CNN discusses the topic about fear ridden Americans when it comes to nuclear war with the U.S and North Korea in her latest article, "How to cope with fears of a nuclear disaster".
LaMotte discusses the influences people may have by simply turning on the television and how they may perceive information, which in all honesty may not even be factual information half of the time. A Harvard public health expert, Suzet McKinney says, "People are very concerned, and I worry some of our most vulnerable may begin to have difficulty in coping with that level of fear", this clearly states the negative affects on how falsified or dramatized news can take on those who believe anything/everything they read or hear. Those who usually fall into an anxiety driven attitude towards the world are the plebeians or "average Joe's" who already do not know much about politics and believe anything they read or listen to.
LaMotte discussed the psychological disadvantages that Finnish teenagers during the 1991 Persian Gulf War went through. The teenagers grew up in an environment where the threat of nuclear war was always possible, and so that resulted in many of the teenagers struggling with depression and anxiety throughout most of their lives.
Exaggerated news during the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, psychologically affected those around the area years later, "Persistent myths and misperceptions about the threat of radiation have resulted in 'paralyzing fatalism' among residents of affected areas," this is quite evident in the sense of if we keep falsifying news and blowing things out of proportion, no pun intended, we are doing more harm than good. What does creating a fearsome and anxiety driven population do for the greater good of this nation? Nothing, it turns our people into fainthearted and timid survivors. We start to become afraid of certain things, consciously or subconsciously. People can also begin to segregate themselves from certain cultures/ethnicities because of these negative stigmas we are constantly observing on the news and media.
It is important Americans begin to be informed on major or minor news that is legitimate. What the news does is wait...they wait and bait, creating "ideas" and formulations of theories and conclusions of what they or someone might think will happen. It is not fair or right, it can create a large population of mentally unstable people who start preparing for the world to end and simply view the world as something it really is not. We deserve credible, accurate, and valid information.
LaMotte discusses the influences people may have by simply turning on the television and how they may perceive information, which in all honesty may not even be factual information half of the time. A Harvard public health expert, Suzet McKinney says, "People are very concerned, and I worry some of our most vulnerable may begin to have difficulty in coping with that level of fear", this clearly states the negative affects on how falsified or dramatized news can take on those who believe anything/everything they read or hear. Those who usually fall into an anxiety driven attitude towards the world are the plebeians or "average Joe's" who already do not know much about politics and believe anything they read or listen to.
LaMotte discussed the psychological disadvantages that Finnish teenagers during the 1991 Persian Gulf War went through. The teenagers grew up in an environment where the threat of nuclear war was always possible, and so that resulted in many of the teenagers struggling with depression and anxiety throughout most of their lives.
Exaggerated news during the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, psychologically affected those around the area years later, "Persistent myths and misperceptions about the threat of radiation have resulted in 'paralyzing fatalism' among residents of affected areas," this is quite evident in the sense of if we keep falsifying news and blowing things out of proportion, no pun intended, we are doing more harm than good. What does creating a fearsome and anxiety driven population do for the greater good of this nation? Nothing, it turns our people into fainthearted and timid survivors. We start to become afraid of certain things, consciously or subconsciously. People can also begin to segregate themselves from certain cultures/ethnicities because of these negative stigmas we are constantly observing on the news and media.
It is important Americans begin to be informed on major or minor news that is legitimate. What the news does is wait...they wait and bait, creating "ideas" and formulations of theories and conclusions of what they or someone might think will happen. It is not fair or right, it can create a large population of mentally unstable people who start preparing for the world to end and simply view the world as something it really is not. We deserve credible, accurate, and valid information.
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You are absolutely correct. These days we get huge headlines with big, life-changing news about huge problems or famous power couples-- stories that are mostly apocryphal. For example, after Hurricane Harvey, there was a huge to-do because HEB ran out of gas at their gas stations. Everyone was terrified that the hurricane had knocked out the gas lines, and gas prices were through the roof. The news was up in arms about the gas shortage in the state, while in reality it was simply HEB getting more customers because of all the people who were forced to evacuate. That is only one of the examples. You can go looking through any magazine or newspaper and find some level of fanciful journalism. The world sees these stories and believes them, because they don't know any better and don't choose to find out. If we are going to be ignorant of the facts of news, we should at least be given the truth about it.