Cohens Moral Panic

Cohens Morale Panic was created by Stanley Cohen and is what the media uses to make a certain someone look as if they are a threat to society in some way. Cohen said that the panic can cause  "a condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges as a threat to societal values and interests"

Folk Devils are created when the media takes a piece of imformation on some one in the public eye and hugely exagerates it, such as a riot, the media can exagerate the number of people involved and the scale of violence. The writer will voice their opinion strongly and the word will spread until it creates a sense of "them" and "us". However these stories are hard to maintian over a extended period of time and often drop in popularity and drop out of the media.