MORAL PANIC

Insulating the justice system from media-generated hype



Insulate the justice system from media-generated hype

Introduction

Moral panic is nothing less than a plague that has taken strong roots in modern day society. A major reason behind the rapid prevalence of moral panic is the fact that moral panic means large revenue figures for media giants. The hype created as a result of moral panic may converge in to complete silence and a rapid closure of the issue that led to the generation of the moral panic. The overall impact of moral panic, therefore, is rarely anything else but negative. This brief ...