Larvatus Prodeo

The old days of Press Release Policing are looking decidedly numbered. No longer can you just get some coppers and cameras together on the 6pm news unleashing a bit of the ultraviolence in an effort to scare the kids and reassure the olds. Once you bring web into the foray, you’re putting the narrative at risk, not only for the reasons Mark has discussed here but because you rely on Journalists. Take the author of Daily Terrorgraph story “Riot police break up Facebook party” – the headline aims to elide the Corey moral panic with the latest in series of very well organised and, crucially, free warehouse parties. She describes her job on her own Facebook profile thusly: Continue reading ‘Journos, Moral Panics and “Facebook Parties”’