News Selection (moral Panic
- Created by: ecotts
- Created on: 31-12-17 15:02
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- News selections
- Moral Panics
- Cohen
- The media focus on groups and activities defining them as a problem
- This creates public fear and anxiety putting pressure on authorities to control the problem
- Cycle of Newsworthiness
- 1. media repot on issue with exaggerated language and characteristics of those involved
- Reports blew what were essentially small-scale scuffles and vandalism out of all proportion
- 2. People react- the public begin to report it more and call for action an insist the police/ authorities take charge
- 3. More deviane & arrests as the reportage of the media led to a self-fulfilling prophecy
- 1. media repot on issue with exaggerated language and characteristics of those involved
- Cohen
- Why do certain news result in moral panics
- Journalist see 'problem groups' as newsworthy
- because they assume the audience also thinks of those groups as problems
- These kinds of stories tend to sell as lot of newspapers creating profits
- Hall
- Labelling certain groups as 'problems' encourages certain groups to divide e.g W/C
- This is so they aren't focussing on the unfairness of the capitalist society
- Labelling certain groups as 'problems' encourages certain groups to divide e.g W/C
- Journalist see 'problem groups' as newsworthy
- Criticism
- Jewkes
- The moral panic theory is too vague
- It fails to consider that there are different levels of deviancy
- Not all folk devils can be said to be unfairly marginalised by the news media
- The public naively and passively trust the news reports that underpin moral panics
- The moral panic theory is too vague
- McRobbie & Thornton
- The relationship between the media and audiences have undermined overall impact of moral panic
- Public are more sophisticatedhow they interpret news stories
- Jewkes
- Moral Panics
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