FearTV: Fear Manipulation by the Mass Media

As a part of WAMU 88.5's Youth Voices radio workshop, my four colleagues and I set out to tell a story about an issue that we felt was important not only to us, but to our current generation as a whole. All of our ideas were unique and diverse sounding when we pitched them to our boss and editor a few months ago, and something struck me about the stories as a whole: not one of them was anything nearly as morbid, depressing, or pessimistic as the average evening news that I watched every night. I wondered why, and then decided to find out.

This is a rough cut that isn't completely smoothed over yet, of my first feature piece which will be airing on WAMU 88.5 sometime within the next two weeks, date TBA.

Special thanks go out to Deborah Bolling, all of the YV folks, Joe Johns, Rosiland Jordan, Bob Lichter, Geoff Livingston, and Ms. Mutnick.