Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thorough investigation of a million Muslim immigrants, it would be easier to deport immigrants than to detain them.” Coulter’s appeal for ethnic cleansing has elicited widespread condemnation from fellow commentators. New York Times columnist Frank Rich said she was fueling “hysteria on the right;” Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam labeled her a “right-wing telebimbo;” and Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Tom Brazaitis accused her of “bloodthirsty rhetoric.” Although Coulter’s incendiary comments were enough...
...reporting on gas masks, vaccines and disaster kits made many of you feel that we added unnecessarily to people's jitters about biological attacks. "Not only are you helping fuel hysteria," complained a Wisconsin man, "but you are promoting the flawed logic that if you have enough money, you can keep your family safe." From San Antonio, a Texan warned, "Sensational journalism does little more than cause inevitable panic buying and doomsday fears." A Nebraskan declared, "Gas masks won't help against an anthrax attack," and urged TIME to "stop scaring people and tell us how to protect the country...
...From Hell," retells the story of Jack the Ripper by recontextualizing it into the social and political milieu of its time. Queen Victoria, the Freemasons, the Elephant Man and the beginnings of media hysteria get swirled into the atmospheric mists of Whitechapel, London. The comic version may well turn out to be the writer Alan Moore's magnum opus. Meticulously researched, it took five years to complete and totals over 500 pages, including copious footnotes. Moore first gained mainstream media exposure when his "Watchmen" series, about the killings of retired superheroes, established him as a master at orchestrating long-term...
That did not seem like sheer hysteria by Friday, when we learned that Tom Brokaw's assistant at NBC had tested positive for anthrax after opening a threatening letter with powder inside. At that moment the New York Times was being evacuated after another letter rained powder in the newsroom; this one was addressed to bioterrorism expert Judith Miller. Initial testing showed no sign of anthrax, but the threat still seemed real, and cunning. You didn't need to shoot the messengers; you just needed to scare them to death, because fear is bacterial as well. It can spread...
...antibiotics and vaccines, may be required. At the same time, of course, the nation cannot take preparations for biological warfare to extremes. America depends on its mail system for everything from daily business transactions to casual correspondence between friends; abandoning the mails, hoarding supplies of antibiotics or reverting to hysteria in any form would only add to the attacks’ impact. Many of the envelopes tested for anthrax have been shown to be hoaxes, which do the perpetrators a favor by multiplying the fear their attacks create...