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27 Stephen Jay Gould, Questioning the Millennium (New York: Crown, 1997) ; Todd Gitlin, “Millennial Mumbo Jumbo,” Los Angeles Times Book Review, 27 April 1997, p. 8.
28 Karen Frost, Erica Frank et al., “Relative Risk in the News Media,” American Journal of Public Health 87 (1997): 842-45. Media-effects theory: Nancy Signorielli and Michael Morgan, eds., Cultivation Analysis (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990);Jennings Bryant and Dolf Zillman, eds., Media Effects (Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1994); Ronald Jacobs, “Producing the News, Producing the Crisis,” Media, Culture and Society 18 (1996): 373-97.
29 Madriz, Nothing Bad Happens to Good Girls, see esp. pp. 111-14; David Whitman and Margaret Loftus, “Things Are Getting Better? Who Knew,” U.S. News & World Report, 16 December 1996, pp. 30-32.
30 Blendon and Young, “War on Illicit Drugs.” See also Ted Chiricos et al., “Crime, News and Fear of Crime,” Social Problems 44 (1997): 342-57.
31 Steven Stark, “Local News: The Biggest Scandal on TV,” Washington Monthly (June 1997): 38—41; Barbara Bliss Osborn, “If It Bleeds, It Leads,” Extra, September-October 1994, p. 15; Jenkins, Pedophiles and Priests, pp. 68-71; “It’s Murder,” USA Today, 20 April 1998, p. D2; Lawrence Grossman, “Does Local TV News Need a National Nanny?” Columbia Journalism Review (May 1998): 33.
32 Regarding fearmongering by newsmagazines, see also Elizabeth Jensen et al., “Consumer Alert,” Brill’s Content (October 1998): 130-47.
33 ABC, “20/20,” 16 March 1998.
34 Thomas Maugh, “Killer Bacteria a Rarity,” Los Angeles Times, 3 December 1994, p. A29; Ed Siegel, “Roll Over, Ed Murrow,” Boston Globe, 21 August 1994, p. 14. Crier quote from ABC’s “20/20,” 24 June 1994.
35 Sheryl Stolberg, “‘Killer Bug’ Perfect for Prime Time,” Los Angeles Times, 15 June 1994, pp. A1, 30-31. Quotes from Brown, “Flesh-eating Bug”; and Michael Lemonick and Leon Jaroff, “The Killers All Around,” Time, 12 September 1994, pp. 62-69.
36 Lewin, “More Victims and Less Sense”; Tamar Lewin, “Study Finds No Big Rise in Public-School Crimes,” New York Times, 25 March 1998, p. A18.
37 “Licensing Can Protect,” USA Today, 7 April 1998, p. A11; Jonathan Kellerman, “Few Surprises When It Comes to Violence,” USA Today, 27 March 1998, p. A13; Gary Fields, ‘Juvenile Homicide Arrrest Rate on Rise in Rural USA,” USA Today, 26 March 1998, p. A11; Karen Peterson and Glenn O’Neal, “Society More Violent, So Are Its Children,“ USA Today, 25 March 1998, p. A3; Scott Bowles, “Armed, Alienated and Adolescent,” USA Today, 26 March 1998, p. A9. Similar suggestions about guns appear in Jonathan Alter, “Harnessing the Hysteria,” Newsweek, 6 April 1998, p. 27.
38 Sharon Walsh, “Gun Sellers Look to Future—Children,” Washington Post, 28 March 1998, pp. A1, 2.
39 John Schwartz, “An Outbreak of Medical Myths,” Washington Post National Edition, 22 May 1995, p. 38.
40 Richard Preston, The Hot Zone (New York: Random House, 1994); Malcolm Gladwell, “The Plague Year,” New Republic, 17 July 1995, p. 40.
41 Erik Larson, “A False Crisis: How Workplace Violence Became a Hot Issue, Wall StreetJournal,13 October 1994, pp. A1, 8; Cynthia Crossen, “Fright By the Numbers,” Wall StreetJournal, 11 April 1996, pp. B1, 8. See also G. Pascal Zachary, ‘Junk History,” Wall Street Journal, 19 September 1997, pp. A1, 6.
42 On variable definitions of obesity see also Werner Cahnman, “The Stigma of Obesity,” Sociological Quarterly 9 (1968): 283-99; Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993); Joan Chrisler, “Politics and Women’s Weight,” Feminism and Psychology 6 (1996): 181-84.
43 Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky, Risk and Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), see esp. pp. 6-9; Mary Douglas, Risk and Blame (London: Routledge, 1992). See also Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger (New York: Praeger, 1966). Asbestos and schools: Peter Cary, “The Asbestos Panic Attack,” U.S. News & World Report, 20 February 1995, pp. 61-64; Children’s Defense Fund, “State of America’s Children.”
44 See Marina Warner, “Peroxide