If not for televison, would Americans be so terrified of terrorism? If 9/11 was not on t.v.?

Answer 1

Are you blaming televison for making people afraid of terrorism? My stepson was in New York on 9/11 and lost ten of his friends and acquaintances that day. He had almost been assigned to the World Trade Center. TV is TV and terrorism is terrorism. Should radio be blamed for making people afraid after the attacks on Pearl Harbor?

Answer 2

Television just put it in our faces right now. Same with the Desert Storm and Invasion of Iraq. American newspapers and magazines would have been able to stir up the same stories and spread the news to everyone...it just would have taken longer to do. Americans have grown accustomed to tuning into "Breaking News as it happens".

Television works both ways though. While it brings us the threats and stories in real time.....they play the stories so often or so in depth now that people become desensitized to them and begin treating them as "news reruns".

Answer 3

Television allows one to see events as they unfold. Information is dispersed very quickly. Without the ability to see the events in real time, one might be less informed. This given, the information would still be communicated and most of us would still know we are in a great war and against an enemy whom would have us all dead.

Answer 4

probably not.

our mental capacity to deal with information has not kept pace with the technology able to desseminate in worlwide, almost real time.

g.w.bush farts, the world knows in 5 minutes
geo. washington farts, a few guys say "who cut the cheese" and life goes on.

read Marshall McLuhan "Medium is the Message"

Answer 5

I don't think they understand that some of the things on TV are real. Otherwise, after the Vietnam catastrophe, they would never have gone to war again.

Answer 6

I think the media can over kill the news, I'm sure this affects some people. But on the other hand we need to be informed.

Answer 7

Good question.

Maybe just the ones who were there.