Moral panics: two items for your consideration
Richard Herring on the tabloids’ corruption of children:
I guess we’re always going to be stuck with self-righteousness, it just seems to me that the self-righteous do a lot more damage than the people they’re railing against. But I think the journalists are well aware of that. It’s a way for them to spread information that will prove offensive to people, without having to take any of the blame for the offence. Never mind if careers are being ruined or young minds are being polluted in the process. How does the print media manage to remain above criticism when they often do much more harm than the things they are criticising?
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Posted on November 21st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
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I guess we’re always going to be stuck with self-righteousness, it just seems to me that the self-righteous do a lot more damage than the people they’re railing against.
Quite. What do you reckon Andrew Sachs found more disturbing - a message left on his answerphone, however tasteless, or having hoards of journalists camped on his doorstep for days afterwards asking how upset he was?