Another spot-on observation from this paper: "Moral panics in society act as a form of ideological cohesion which draws on a complex language of nostalgia"--i.e., life was better before Facebook, comic books, or books....
From Angela McRobbie & Sarah Thornton, 1995
From Angela McRobbie & Sarah Thornton, 1995
https://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/1370425358655361028
More: Moral panics "are a means of orchestrating consent by actively intervening in the space of public opinion & social consciousness through the use of highly emotive and rhetorical language which has the effect of requiring that 'something be done about it.'"
From the same paper: Targeting! (before the web). When I worked at Time Inc., we had access to incredible amounts of PII with name and address. 
More: "There are large groups of people in which the media are not economically & therefore editorially interested--crucially, the D & E 'social grades'...So-called folk devils now produce their own media as a counter to what they perceive as the biased media of the mainstream."
Fun paragraph from the paper (from the '90s):
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