I've mentioned elsewhere that a profit driven media leads to sensationalism and emotion driven content over objective fact telling. That is the one thing that

I've mentioned elsewhere that a profit driven media leads to sensationalism and emotion driven content over objective fact telling. That is the one thing that I can think of that is particularly American but there does still seem an inverse instinct within the US, where someone in say Alabama, who is as likely to be touched by a terrorist as they are by aliens are more likely to be a doomsday prepper.