> Charles; What did Jim Heartfield and the gang call it ? panic mongering ?
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/mtw9403.html
Furedi, Frank (1994): 'A Plague of Moral Panics' (Living Marxism issue 73,
November 1994). [WWW document] URL
http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM73/LM73_Franf.html
Moral Panics, as a term in sociology was popularized by Joe Gusfield, if memory serves, here, "Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement, " Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/vol8is3/killingbeck.html Useful review on TV and moral panics.
Cohen, Stanley. 1980. Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers (New Edition). Oxford, UK: Martin Robertson. Cohen book blurbed by Chomsky, "States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering." http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/- /0745623921/qid=1063158127/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_3/102-3948716- 9841716?v=glance&s=books has 25 sample pgs.
-- Michael Pugliese