The Media Effects Debate Moral Panics A moral panic is a term used to describe a sudden flurry of conservative attitudes towards the media (usually film or music) when something which is perceived as too shocking or graphic is released to the public. For example when the film Reservoir Dogs was released in the UK there was a "Moral Panic" because many thought that the wanton violence, and in particular the way the violence was …showed first 75 words of 899 total…

…showed last 75 words of 899 total…with each passing year as films, and crimes, get more violent. I personally don't feel that the majority of them are justified. There are cases, however, when appropriate action should be taken if a film is too ahead of the curve, as A Clockwork Orange was but in retrospect films of that nature can be judged more impartially and be released when in it generally felt the viewing public at large can cope with it.