Does the media play into our fears?

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It seems that every negative thing the media states that is negative we will start to fear it. Terrorism and world war 3 I think are what people tend to fear the most right now. It seems like whenever you turn on the news they are talking about terrorism. Especially when they do their world wide news coverage. A more comical example of this would have been around September through late December of 1999 (Y2K). The uneducated members of our society said many paranoid things around this time, solely because of what they heard on the news. I know you guys are educated when it comes to computers, so you wouldn’t fear this. What about things where no one is really educated on it, terrorism for example all we can really base our fears on is what we hear on the news like what many people did in the late 1999.