Scaremongery

The honourable Member's statement is a form of scaremongery.

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The magazine Time is not a journal that is given to scaremongery, but in its issue of the 3rd March, 1952, it reported the result of an investigation into television, as it affected children, by a committee of mothers.

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As the businessmen have been lobbying hard for the government to take measures to reflate the economy, there may have been an element of scaremongery in their forecast.

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This deliberately alarmist scaremongery has since been repeated on various occasions, notably in Brazil before 1964 and in Chile under Allende.

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