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496:. It begins with a little girl standing in a meadow, birds chirping in the background; she picks and clumsily counts the petals off of a daisy. When she reaches 'nine', an ominous male voice begins a launch countdown. The girl's gaze turns toward the sky and the camera zooms into her eye until her pupil blackens the screen. As the countdown reaches zero, a nuclear explosion flashes on and morphs into a mushroom cloud. While the firestorm rages, Johnson's declares, "These are the stakes! To make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into the dark. We must either love each other, or we must die." Another voice then says, "Vote for President Johnson on November 3. The stakes are too high for you to stay home." 50: 516:. Stories about crime, and especially violent crimes and crimes against children, figure prominently among newspaper headlines. An analysis of US newspapers has found that between 10 and 30% of headlines involve crime and fear, with a tendency to a shift of focus from isolated crime events to more thematic articles about fear. In the United Kingdom, the news media have routinely used a focus on gory sex crimes as a parameter of competition. The continued focus on emotionally touching sex crimes has had a strong influence on politics and legislation in the country. 235: 453: 367:
in which people perceive the world as more dangerous than it really is. Fearmongering can make people fear the wrong things, and use too many resources to avoid rare and unlikely dangers while more probable dangers are ignored. For example, some parents have kept their children at home to prevent
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technique, and over the last several years, advertisers have continued to increase their usage of fear in ads in what has been called a "never-ending arms race in the advertising business".
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government. Historians disagree about who were controlling the strategy of tension, but there is evidence that both national neofascist groups and foreign powers were involved.
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Signorielli, N (1990). "Television's Mean and Dangerous World: A Continuation of the Cultural Indicators Perspective". In Signorielli, N; Morgan, M (eds.).
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is also a kind of psychological warfare. It is creating violence and terror in order to get media attention or to scare an enemy.
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Shoemaker, Pamela J. (1996). "Hardwired for News: Using Biological and Cultural Evolution to Explain the Surveillance Function".
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of all kinds are often using fearmongering as a tactic in the competition for attention, as illustrated by the examples below.
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to persuade people into making emotional rather than reasoned choices. From car commercials that imply that having fewer
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have also entered the arena with their discovery that "fear sells". Ad campaigns based on fear, sometimes referred to as
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for the purpose of influencing a target population. The tactics often involves defamation of an enemy by means of
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to rely extensively on scary stories and bad news in a competition that has been characterized as an emotional
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by increasing support for the incumbent political leaders. For example, official warnings about the risk of
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Zhu, Jian-Hua (1992). "Issue competition and attention distraction: A zero-sum theory of agenda-setting".
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Willer, R (2004). "The effects of government-issued terror warnings on presidential approval ratings".
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attacks have been used as a pretext for starting a war in many cases, including the
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Italian Neofascism: The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Nonreconciliation
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What is happening to news: The information explosion and the crisis in journalism
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Gerbner, G (1980). "The "mainstreaming" of America: violence profile number 11".
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attacks. The main purpose of the strategy of tension in Italy was to prevent the
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attacks in the country in these years. Some of these attacks were committed by
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groups. Many of the apparent left-wing attacks were suspected or confirmed
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Warlike and Peaceful Societies: The Interaction of Genes and Culture
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is a famous television commercial that aired in 1964 and was run by
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attacks have led to increased support for the proposed policies of
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The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things
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in many countries for purposes such as increasing support for an
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The attention of citizens is a fiercely contested resource that
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Threats to Democracy: The Radical Right in Italy after the War
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while they paid less attention to more common dangers such as
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The theater of terror: Mass media and international terrorism
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Selling Fear: Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion
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was accused of scaremongering by New Zealand politician
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Puppetmasters: The Political use of Terrorism in Italy
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The effect is amplified by 27:Deliberate use of fear-based tactics 1020: 1011: 856: 582:Fearmongering is routinely used in 13: 1240:Terrorism and the Politics of Fear 1157:"Making Fear-Based Campaigns Work" 931:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1980.tb01987.x 844:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1996.tb01487.x 812:. February 8, 2017. Archived from 359:effects, which may be intended or 48: 14: 2349: 448:Political campaign advertisements 233: 1960:Party platforms (or manifestos) 1276: 1261: 1246: 1231: 1216: 1175: 1155:Nedra Weinreich (3 June 2006). 1148: 1123: 1098: 1084:. University of Chicago Press. 1073: 1061:from the original on 2021-12-19 1041: 997:. University Of Chicago Press. 986: 967: 937: 910: 885: 850: 802: 635:government, or to prevent the 380:. Fearmongering can produce a 355:Fearmongering can have strong 1: 2323:Political campaign techniques 1257:. Princeton University Press. 796: 499: 363:. One hypothesized effect is 2048:Rally 'round the flag effect 1223:Weimann, G; Winn, C (1994). 755:Missing-children milk carton 382:rally around the flag effect 7: 892:Altheide, David L. (2014). 734:Fear, uncertainty and doubt 686: 442: 342:compete over, according to 332:civil society organizations 10: 2354: 1212:. ONE News. 20 March 2011. 871:10.1177/107769909206900403 476: 15: 2242: 2187: 2119: 2061: 1993: 1910: 1827: 1779: 1669: 1580: 1507: 1397: 1389:Manipulation (psychology) 1331: 896:. Peter Lang Publishing. 651:in the 1960s to 1980s in 293:evolutionary anthropology 286: 1567:Criticism of advertising 1238:Altheide, D. L. (2006). 1105:Altheide, D. L. (2002). 1027:. Open Book Publishers. 948:. Sage. pp. 85–106. 919:Journal of Communication 832:Journal of Communication 2229:Promotional merchandise 1940:Character assassination 1877:Narcotizing dysfunction 1751:Photograph manipulation 1464:Guerrilla communication 1287:. 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