Panic Attacks

Media Manipulation and Mass Delusion

By: Robert E. Bartholomew, Hilary Evans

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eBook | 19 August 2004 | Edition Number 1

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**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.