Kaleel Sturm

October 26, 2015

UWRT 1103

Double Entry Journal

Citation:

Source: Quote (Page# or Paragraph #)

Responses

To Debrix, in the United States, and

increasingly throughout the world,
geopolitics is so media-infested as to be
inevitably tabloid. (Paragraph 2)

I agree with this statement because most of

our media today focuses on the bad news
and gossip. Most if it isnt true at all and
people still believe it.

To him, the Y2K scare was important

because it demonstrated how the media
could fashion fear almost from scratch.

This still happens today. For example, the

December 21st, 2012 scare that had many
people believe that the world was going to
end o that day because the Mayan Calendar
ended on that day.

(P3)

Clearly, this discourse did not need the 9 11

attacks to be deployed in American cultural
and academic circles. (P4)

The media used 9/11 to scare the public, and

still does today. They scared the public into
approving the Patriot Act which violates out
privacy.

Likewise, the last chapter in the book is a

reading of how different images offered by
the media invite readings by the public that
first invoke fear, and then invoke a work on
the self that will make it possible to deal
with that fear. (P5)

The media used images to invoke fear in the

public so they will buy the tabloid