Fear Itself

On the Media

WNYC Studios

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4.6 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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How fear and psychology are utilized on and off screen.

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0:00.0	The heart-pounding power and titillating a lore of fear on the TV news.
0:06.2	You never see news stories about how there's no crime.
0:09.4	Saying the crime is bad gets people to react emotionally and that can be put to use.
0:14.5	And the silver screen.
0:16.4	Is it human or inhuman?
0:18.7	You'll feel the awful, creeping crawling terror that stands your hair on end.
0:24.3	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:27.3	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:28.7	Why do we seek out the thrill of being scared senseless?
0:32.4	One of the leading theories for why we might love to watch horror movies is that ability to transfer threat arousal over to pleasure.
0:41.8	Plus the renaissance of Black Horror.
0:44.8	Let me imagine that racism is a zombie and now we can have a good time.
0:49.4	Okay.
0:51.2	On this week's on the media from WNYC.
1:01.8	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:05.2	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:06.8	It's that time of year again or that time of every other year again.
1:12.1	We're now just 16 days away from what could be the most consequential set of midterm elections in modern history.
1:17.3	And as Stephen Colbert says, you know what that means.
1:20.9	For the next 13 days, the news media is going to yank our chains like they're trying to start a leaf blower.
1:27.2	But which chain?
1:28.4	Abortion rights will literally be on everybody's ballot in Michigan.
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