“When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.” WantImportantStoriesBehindsNewsMusic IsDramaticThemeScare Author:Aaron McGruder
“Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.” StoriesTurnsViolenceDoctorsViolentSicknessScareHelplessness Author:Warren Zevon
“When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race to the bottom" simply in terms of wages. Capitalism supposedly looks for labor wherever labor is cheapest. This story is half wrong. A kind of cultural selection is also at work, so that jobs leave high-wage countries like the United States and Germany, but migrate to low-wage economies with skilled, sometimes overqualified workers.” WritingLooksKindCountrySometimesStatesStoriesJobsTermPoorUnitedRaceHalfUnited StatesEconomyRichLowsCapitalismLaborPressesWorkersBottomGermanyScareWagesSelectionDrainingMigrateOverqualified Book:The Culture of the New Capitalism Source: The Culture of the New Capitalism