Moral Panic

Key Words

• Moral Panic
• Stanley Cohen 1972
• Sensationalism

1) How effective are regulatory practices?

• PCC code of conduct broken regularly
• Not legally binding - cant be enforced
• Retrospective action can really only be taken by those who can afford to pay
• Makes easy for public to complain

2) What are the wider social issues relating to media regulation?

1)Moral panics are when the mass media exaggerate a story to create it into a "Epidemic" or a story in which they can cause panic, threatens moral standards

2) When they make a mountain out of a mole hill, misrepresentation

3) Yes but it is impossible because no newspaper is gonna have there newspaper regulated before being published

4) I don't think so

5)

Publish and be Damned

Publish and be Damned

Publish and be Damned Moral... take care when publishing with out evidence or facts.
Lesson Objective: To understand the nature of the retrospective action - "Publish and be Damned"

Key Words

• Retrospective action
• publish and be damned
• libel 
• privacy
• public interest

Case Study 1

Max Mosley vs NotW (News of the World)

Summary
Max Mosley was FIA president, Oswald Mosley in the 1930's was in charge of the Nazi party in the UK was Max Mosley's father.
the footage was "Ordered" by NotW by paying the hooker to record it.

Codes Broken:
Accuracy
Privacy
Clandestine Devices
Subterfuge
Payment to Criminals

Negatives of the Publish and be Damned system for the public:

• Not everyone has the money to enter litigation
• once the story is out there it stays there

Case Study 2
Joanna Yates - Christopher Yates

Lesson 2

• Marginalisation- groups pushed to the side
• Polarization- separation of groups
• Accountability - holding some to account
• Public Interest - what is important to the public
• Misrepresentation - misrepresent story using a biased view via the press

• Freedom of the Press - freedom to print what stories they wish
• Freedom of Speech - .
• Public Interest
• Deregulation

what factors unerpin and make the idea of regulation open to change

• Historical and sociopolitical change
• changes in technology
• culture regulation - regulation bases on our culture
• audience desenstiation and deregulation