2015
DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2015.1006935
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Journalism, Moral Panic and the Public Interest

Abstract: The public interest is commonly presumed to be fundamental to the practice of journalism. Journalists and the media organizations for which they work routinely assume that they are able to identify what is in the public interest, and act accordingly. This article explores notions of the public interest in the context of a particular case study, that of Sharleen Spiteri, an HIV+ sex worker who appeared on the Australian national current affairs television program 60 Minutes in 1989 and admitted that she sometim… Show more

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“…In fact, the public is the most important actor in the formation of moral panic (Garland, 2008). Moral panic only exists to the extent that there is an outcry from the public over the alleged threat posed by the targeted person or group (Morton & Aroney, 2016). Moreover, the success of politicians, the media, and criminal justice in precipitating moral panic is dependent upon how successfully they fuel public outrage toward the “folk devil” (Garland, 2000).…”
Section: Current Studymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In fact, the public is the most important actor in the formation of moral panic (Garland, 2008). Moral panic only exists to the extent that there is an outcry from the public over the alleged threat posed by the targeted person or group (Morton & Aroney, 2016). Moreover, the success of politicians, the media, and criminal justice in precipitating moral panic is dependent upon how successfully they fuel public outrage toward the “folk devil” (Garland, 2000).…”
Section: Current Studymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This meant that there was no consensus on how to define public interest with an all-encompassing definition. This was supported by academic observation (Morrison & Svennevig, 2007;Morton & Aroney, 2016) and industry defence (Petley, 2012).…”
Section: The Public Interestmentioning
confidence: 59%
“…Other researchers argued that journalists must invade people's privacy, employ subterfuge, or pay for information if they could prove public information and if traditional avenues of inquiry failed (Morton & Aroney, 2016). This is reflected in the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Editors' Code of Conduct, which outlines 11 public interest defences journalists can use to defend practice (Ipso, 2016).…”
Section: The Public Interestmentioning
confidence: 99%