In the “Fighting for Our Lives” article, I found the statement about the “boy who cried wolf” effect in our societal dialogue interesting. The author wrote that heated, warlike argument is so common that we are losing the ability to differentiate between debates over extremely important issues and over unimportant, and unnecessarily sensationalized issues. This reminded me of an article I read about the effects of sensationalization in news media. For example, CNN presents the news relatively accurately, but every breaking news story is presented like it’s the end of the world. When every single action that the current government takes receives this electrifying crisis treatment on CNN, viewers lose the ability to pick out truly harmful
