Media hype
Subtitle: when news coverage goes too far
By: ABC News Productions ; directed by George Paul
Contributors: Stossel, John; ABC News Productions; ABC News; Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Series: PAD 626 (NU course); PAD 633 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 41
Subjects: Television broadcasting of news; Objectivity; Mass media; Moral and ethical aspects
Other titles: 20/20 (Television program)
Description: Examines factors that contribute to the exaggeration of risks and danger in the news media, using stories involving murder, shark attack, road rage, and carjacking as examples of skewed reporting.
Notes: DVD release of the original television program: ABC News 20/20, broadcast on July 12, 2002.

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Host: John Stossel ; commentary: Bob Lichter, Greg McCrary.

DVD.

Closed-captioned.