Moral panic
This article covers the tragic
story of the death of a teenage girl after she was taking ecstasy in a night
club. The claim of this article is that the media interference and the posting
of images of this girl in a coma were going to increases the usage of ecstasy
and the harm that it does and not prevent it. The idea is that with the images
being released in various mediums that
the parents would want more done about criminalisation of the ecstasy pushers
and dealers. The issue that is brought up is that the more the law do about it
the more underground the problem goes and the riskier it gets. The idea in this
is that the media not only created the panic about ecstasy but fueled the ecstasy
economy by doing ‘research’ by buying the drug. In this example of moral panic
the media is definitely the ‘bad guy’ and in the wrong.
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