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Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
Okay. Tell us how Fox desensitizes people concerning violence/bombings.
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TV news, and Fox in particular, is superficial. Fox -- and I don't think they're unique in this -- sensationalizes violence, particularly violence committed by strangers, without providing context. (Local TV news often does this too, with local crime stories.) Context concerning causes helps to understand why these things occur. Context concerning their impact -- like who the victims are -- helps explain their impact. The superficiality of the coverage has the effect of desensitizing people to what the story means. It just becomes a number of inexplicable, random deaths.
The exception to this general phenomenom is when a story breaks through to saturation coverage. Natalie Holloway (or whatever her name was), 9/11, the OJ case -- these stories are overreported, not underreported, leading to a whole different set of issues.
