Media creates fear

The daily Postimees detects a growing sense of fear among Western populations that is fanned by the media: "People in the West spend a lot of their free time watching television and this is their main source of information. According to studies carried out in the US, people who watch television regularly were more traumatised after 9/11 than those who sought specific information from other sources. ... The people of the West reflect the mental state of their society, fear the future and see themselves as incapable of influencing it. The society of old Europe is above all seeking an answer to the question of how to preserve the status quo. A society like this lives on its memories and is not concerned with shaping the future but rather with preserving what it has already achieved."

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