Posts Tagged ‘moral panic’

Outrage! Moral Panic, Faux-Prudishness and the Press

The press seem to be going through a phase of moral panic. For some reason, ever since Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand left rude messages on a celebrity’s answering machine, the media has frolicked in a bath of controversy – neck-deep in shock, horror and outrage. Somehow, at some point, ‘newspapers’ like the Sun, the [...]