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Journalism's love affair with the moral panic

Huw Lemmey
Jan 11, 2020
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CN: This piece refers to childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault and drug use

The short series began with a warning the Friday prior to the readers of the Pall Mall Gazette:

“we say quite frankly to-day that all those who are squeamish, and all those who are prudish, and all those who prefer to live in a fool's paradise of imaginary innocence and purity, s…

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