1996 in which thousands of stories were published, a strong message was basically sent to the public that conveyed that aviation was a problem that needed to be dealt with. In that ValuJet crash, in which 110 people died, the USA Today alone ran over 110 articles about the crash. Practically all of the top newspapers in the nation including the New York Times and Washington Post each ran around fifty articles on the crash within two weeks. Following the incident, ValuJet was subject to over two thousand inspections by the Federal Aviation Administration. That abnormally close analysis of the airline inevitably led to the closure of the company. The public cannot help but pay attention when so much of what they see everyday is constantly about the same topic.
             It becomes especially difficult for society to ignore fear mongers when certain events are shown to be apart of a dangerously growing trend. Barry Glassner asserts that in addition to creating widespread fear about a topic, fear mongers attempt to increase the concern that the public may have about a certain situation by making isolated incidents appear to be trends. Fear mongers take one incident, connect it to prior unrelated occurrences and basically blow it out of proportion so that there appears to be a large problem. An example of this is easily found in the 1994 USAir commuter jet crash. Although the accident had been only one of several crashes for USAir among millions of successful flights, the media depicted the
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