Brilliant reply.

I'd say that three works need to be studied...I included them in my English 11 AP course.

Neil Postman: Amusing Ourselves to Death

Stanley Cohen: Folk Devils and Moral Panics

Marshall McLuhan: On the same

"The influence of McLuhan would suggest that moral panics were tied closely to the rise of broadcasting, especially television, but Cohen's data sources in Folk Devils and Moral Panics were, in fact, more heavily weighted towards newspapers."