Media Showers

By: J. Lloyd Morgan

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

"When the news forecasted snow for North Carolina, naturally, everyone overreacted."
Media Showers tells an engaging tale of how society responds to a perceived risk, especially when it is given significant attention in the media, through the experiences of two individuals.
Kendra White writes a book about the upcoming energy crisis when the world uses more oil than it produces, also known as “peak oil.” It catches the media’s attention and goes viral.
In contrast, Steven Monroe works for a TV news station, one of many stations that hypes up the potential crisis, which helps the predictions in the book become a self-fulfilling prophecy.