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"The media believe -- and I can't say they're wrong -- that people just enjoy being scared," says Caltech president David Baltimore. "And because their readers and viewers enjoy it, the media play to it." He wrote in the Wall Street Journal on Monday: "People fear whatever scary new thing TV shoves under their noses. But those of us professionally devoted to rational analysis need to do more than wag our fingers now that the press routinely swells the fear factor toward a level that could itself become a danger."
American culture thrives on fear. And this administration thrives on maintaining that.
Current mood: Outraged