Barry Glassner Quote

Television news programs survive on scares. On local newscasts, where producers live by the dictum if it bleeds, it leads, drug, crime, and disaster stories make up most of the news portion of the broadcasts.

Barry Glassner

Television news programs survive on scares. On local newscasts, where producers live by the dictum if it bleeds, it leads, drug, crime, and disaster stories make up most of the news portion of the broadcasts.

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About Barry Glassner

Barry Glassner (born 1952) is an American professor of sociology and author or co-author of nine books, including The Culture of Fear, which discussed the culture of fear phenomenon. He is a former president at Lewis & Clark College.