Moral Panics – The Agony And The Ecstasy | The Learning Zone

Duration: 29'14''

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This programme shows examples of how the media has responded to youth sub-cultures in the past and how, despite tabloid headlines, it can still manage to provide a forum for debate and the communication of alternative, more complex points of view.

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