The social practice of journalism offers resources and skills that individuals can be in society and also to help overcome the uncertainty about the event’s failures constituted "news". Thanks to the media uncertainty is perceived as a fundamental social reality that is incorporated into our culture as the staging continuous risk.

It is customary to talk about the risks to characterize our societies, but such generalizations are often referred to instabilities in the background are much more complex than they appear and do not always have been identified or have been controlled with the single foresight knowledge and technology, social and historically available, have reduced levels of social fragility, and even more, the assessments made by individuals about the historically unstable situations tend to increase levels of real vulnerability, especially because they are influenced, depending on the time, for the point of view of the main social mediators