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This one goes hand-in-hand with the [[Made for TV Movie]]. '''Whatever the latest media-induced paranoia is from [[Ripped from the Headlines|crime]] to [[Disaster Movie|typhoons]], we're going to get a show or special report about it.''' Think [[Everything Trying to Kill You]] applied to [[Real Life]] and you have the idea.
If it's about new technology, then expect [[Science Is Bad]]. If it's a new minority or subculture, then lock the doors and hide your
See also: [[Axes At School]], [[Disaster Movie]], [[Freaks of the Week]], [[Glurge]], [[If It Bleeds, It Leads]], [[Murder Simulators]], [[New Media Are Evil]], [[Paedo Hunt]], [[Ripped from the Headlines]], [[Western Terrorists]]. Often involves a [[Clueless Aesop]].
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* ''Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura'': Every episode is about some [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness|threatening conspiracy]] with nefarious plans that always involve massive harm to the human population. The show will run clips of disasters while the narrator informs us that we'll die any day now thanks to yet another conspiracy.
* The ''[[Leverage]]'' team once took down a TV reporter who made a career out of this. She actually turned down a fake story they fed her about secret terrorist prisons in the US because she didn't think it would scare her viewers enough. [http://www.tv.com/shows/leverage/the-three-days-of-the-hunter-job-1273624/trivia/\]
* [[The X-Files]]: “War of the Coprophages”: Scully attempts to control the mob with a [[Shaming the Mob|speech]] about how they are giving in to
* [[Stephen Colbert]] is [http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=82944&title=Scary-Stephen proud to be a fearmonger].
* ''[[Mock the Week]]'' also ran a story about Bird Flu, showing the scare-mongering of the English media.
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* In ''[[Roseanne]]'' episode, “Toto, We’re Not In Kansas Anymore”, when Lanford is under a Tornado watch, this convention occurs…
{{Quote| '''Becky''': Mother, this is no time to kid around.
'''Roseanne''': Yeah, you’re right. Okay everybody… [[Sarcasm Mode|
== Music ==
* The entire point of [[Eminem]]'s song "Without Me" is to parody this trope. Within the song he makes a [[Take That]] at the FCC, teases paranoid parents that he's "infecting in your kids' ears", and invokes [[The New Rock and Roll]] trope by alluding to the fact that the [[Moral Guardians]] also reacted with
* Hawkwind's production of [[Michael Moorcock]]'s ''Sonic Attack'', in which a robotic and oddly accented voice describes the lethal and agonising symptoms of sonic attack so you can be better informed about one happening in your neighbourhood. This is punctuated with authoritarian commands of "Do Not Panic!" repeated at intervals, as the voices become even more alien and robotic and the accompanying white noise grows louder....
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** The absolute worst may come from a guy named Porter Stansberry, a supposed financial analyst who has been disciplined by the SEC for fraud. He's spent the past year flooding the internet, TV and radio waves with ads suggesting the that one of the most important dates in US history is coming and directing people to a website (who's URL is constantly changing). The site features a video with text and voiceovers only, explaining that the US dollar and economy will definitely collapse within the next year because all other nations are on the verge of agreeing to refuse US dollars (even though doing so would voluntarily ravage those countries' economies) and that the US government will respond by taking away everyone's money and sealing off all entry/exit ot the country, so you need to get your money out of the country NOW (but then how will you get to it if the government is going to shut off access to other countries?). What's more, the narrator keeps saying that you MUST believe him because he correctly predicted the collapse of General Motors, Freddie Mac and Fannie May (news flash - a lot of people did). Oh, and did we tell you he knows the one thing that will not only save you but actually make money when this occurs, and he'll send you the booklet about it for free - IF you sign up for his $50 a month newsletter? (Spoiler alert - it's "buy a farm.")
* Every Environmental Scare Ever. According to Paul Ehrlich we've all died of skin cancer from UV exposure thanks to aerosol cans, the world is so crowded people are falling off,and there's no clean water left to
* Every few months or so, an article comes out saying that Facebook, Twitter and texting make children and teens less socially interactive/have less empathy/have poorer grammar (despite the fact that you could arguably say that about anything that allows you to communicate without actually talking to the person). This may or may not be true, however the way the media goes on about it you would think all people under the age of 20 who use social media are anti-social basement dwellers who spend all their time "sexting". This is probably a continuation of the fear when [[Myspace]] was popular that all people children meet on there are pedophile serial killers.
* Every time a new doll aimed at preteen girls comes out, ''someone'' will freak out and claim that the dolls are promoting loose morals and flawed beauty standards.
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