Cohen's Moral Panic

Stanley Cohen believed that a condition,person,episode or group of people that emerged as a threat to society's values and interests created moral panic, in the media the nature of moral panic would be portrayed in a stylised and stereotypical fashion and moral barricades are controlled by people such as editors and politicians.
However there are the people who feel a threat to society who will begin the moral panic, these people are "moral entrepreneurs" they seek to inflence but there are also the people who threaten social order who are called "folk devils" they are the subject of campaigns of hostility through the use of gossip.