Sentences with phrase «media scare stories»

All the media scare stories, all the scientific projections and all the political shenanigans have done nothing but spend tax money.

Exploring a long list of highly questionable media scare stories, Goldberg reminds us that, in 1987, Oprah Winfrey told her viewers 1 in 5 American heterosexuals would be dead from AIDS within 3 years.

But so what, he clearly holds the reins anyway... And his record to date has actually been pretty good: The company has stated its commitment to international governance standards, related party deals have been cleaned up / eliminated since the IPO, KPMG was appointed as auditor, and lots of media scare stories (buying US poultry companies, deposits in related party banks, getting into cattle raising, etc.) have proved to be untrue.

But today's report warns that, while the health risks of smoking are well documented, the risks associated with passive smoking do not justify a ban, and suggests ministers may have been unduly influenced by media scare stories about the issue.

Not exact matches

Since we are bombarded daily by the mass media with news and views on the economy and economic policies, it is necessary to be trained to demythologize the claimed orthodoxies of economists, academics, policy makers and media programmes, as is accepted in the case of the stories of the scared scriptures.

This is not the first time myself and my retailer colleagues have been fed a constant stream of tobacco industry scare stories, from front groups and via the trade media, in which doomsday was predicted for small retailers at any measure to cut young people smoking.

«Like phoning a bomb scare or pulling a fire box for a false alarm, as little of a story we can make of this I think would be to our advantage, both in the police department, in the school system and, frankly, in the media,» said Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller.

Blue Man - The story of Paul Karason - a mass media deception orchastrated by pharmaceutical interests to scare the public away from using colloidal silver products.

If you're the type of person who is scared to shop online, because you've had the fear installed into you from horror stories by the mainstream media of people getting their details cloned left, right and centre, you'll be please to know that you can... Read more

Despite the media hoo - hah (trying to scare up a story where one didn't really exist), it was obvious Putin would win.

Unfortunately it's people who train these animals to be vicious and for some reason the media picks up on these stories and chooses to make any aggressive pitbull breaking news, hard to imagine that pitbulls were once portrayed as «the family dog,» and now are the dog people are scared to have around their families.

What can it do about the media's need for «scare stories»?

Moreover, climate sceptics would recognise Goldacre's criticism of the media's use of «scare stories».

Although it's anecdotal the media is full of such scare stories, some of which are far more outlandish than your faked ones.

Taken almost as a dogma, the AGW has been forcefully imposed by means of a barrage of scare stories and indoctrination that begins in the elementary school textbooks and is volleyed relentlessly upon us by the media and many scientific institutions (including some pseudo-scientific ones), while gullible or opportunistic politicians devise all possible means of inserting climate - motivated items into their power - seeking schemes....

Not long ago a University of Graz Professor called for the death penalty for scientists who did not agree with the visions of alarmist climate scientists, who have dominated the media and public scene with scare stories of super-storms and Biblical sea level rise for 15 years.

When activists hoodwink the media — and questionable environmental scare stories are the result — why don't we care?

You hear a lot about the difficulties people have with them, but a lot of that is just the media looking for a new horror story to scare readers.

Bonus Prediction: Once San Francisco home prices start to fall, the media will run scare stories about U.S. home prices falling.