Moral Panic describes a public panic over an issue deemed to be a threat to, or shocking to, the sensibilities of "proper" society. This reaction is often fanned by sensationalist selective reporting in the news media and exaggerated accounts offered by "moral entrepreneurs," a category that includes politicians on the make and activists in search of a cause. Moral panics can result in what is a real phenomenon being blown far of proportion, or in what is not a real phenomenon in the first place being widely believed to be real. Moral panics often feature a caricatured or stereotypical "folk devil" on which the anxieties of the community are focused. For example, in 2013 Fox News concocted the "knockout game" news story in which African-American teenagers were said to be sucker punching Je
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| - Moral Panic describes a public panic over an issue deemed to be a threat to, or shocking to, the sensibilities of "proper" society. This reaction is often fanned by sensationalist selective reporting in the news media and exaggerated accounts offered by "moral entrepreneurs," a category that includes politicians on the make and activists in search of a cause. Moral panics can result in what is a real phenomenon being blown far of proportion, or in what is not a real phenomenon in the first place being widely believed to be real. Moral panics often feature a caricatured or stereotypical "folk devil" on which the anxieties of the community are focused. For example, in 2013 Fox News concocted the "knockout game" news story in which African-American teenagers were said to be sucker punching Je
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| - Moral Panic describes a public panic over an issue deemed to be a threat to, or shocking to, the sensibilities of "proper" society. This reaction is often fanned by sensationalist selective reporting in the news media and exaggerated accounts offered by "moral entrepreneurs," a category that includes politicians on the make and activists in search of a cause. Moral panics can result in what is a real phenomenon being blown far of proportion, or in what is not a real phenomenon in the first place being widely believed to be real. Moral panics often feature a caricatured or stereotypical "folk devil" on which the anxieties of the community are focused. For example, in 2013 Fox News concocted the "knockout game" news story in which African-American teenagers were said to be sucker punching Jews in large numbers. In reality there were only a handful of such attacks and the violence is indistinguishable from other random teen violence.
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