American Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000
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Full Title

American Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000
Author(s)

Sarah A. Hughes
Edition
ISBN

9783030836368, 9783030836351
Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This book examines the “satanic panic” of the 1980s as an essential part of the growing relationship between tabloid media and American conservative politics in the 1980s. It argues that widespread fears of Satanism in a range of cultural institutions was indispensable to the development and success of both infotainment, or tabloid content on television, and the rise of the New Right, a conservative political movement that was heavily guided by a growing coalition of influential televangelists, or evangelical preachers on television. It takes as its particular focus the hundreds of accusations that devil-worshippers were operating America’s white middle-class suburban daycare centers. Dozens of communities around the country became embroiled in trials against center owners, the most publicized of which was the McMartin Preschool trial in Manhattan Beach, California. It remains the longest and most expensive criminal trial in the nation’s history.

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