In our classroom conversation today we were talking about how people got so cared when the radio play the war of the worlds was aired. That topic brought up a discussion about how scare tactics are used in media to catch our attention and keep us listening. What came to my mind was the terror alert system that was on major news stations like Fox for ever after the 9/11 attacks. They always cared me to death. Every day they would say that the terror alert was severe today. It always seemed to be either high or severe. Every day then i would think that they had a good reason to say that and i would be sure that we were gonna get attacked again. It got pretty rediculous. I remember hearing on the news that people were starting to get tired of always having a high terror alert. It was always the same and it was scary. But after a year or two of that something needed to be done. That is a good example of a scare tactic that the news stations used to keep people watching.
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