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The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility

In this 2014 book from Oxford University Press, academics Jeffrey M. Berry and Sarah Sobieraj note: * Outrage discourse involves efforts to provoke emotional responses (e.g., anger, fear, moral indignation) from the audience through the use of overgeneralizations, sensationalism, misleading … Continue reading

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