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Panic now! Or later?
Author(s) -
Briscoe Simon
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2008.00293.x
Subject(s) - newspaper , panic , media studies , history , psychology , sociology , anxiety , psychiatry
Simon Briscoe , author of a new book, Panicology , examines the role that data plays in media scare stories. Scary newspaper stories are scattered throughout this piece. Just how much ought we to be panicked by headlines?