Moral panic is basically the rising question against the media of various artists throughout the music industry that are glorified, regardless of the terrible examples that they are setting to the young audiences that they are predominantly loved by. A good example of this is Chris Brown, he was in the news because of what happened between him and Rihanna regarding domestic violence. This is a massive issue for many people worldwide, yet magazines still decide to use an image of him for the cover of their magazine. Although he is still popular for his music, should he really be shown as someone amazing after doing something like that? This is the main question raised by the media. Other examples of this are the likes of Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty. These are also featured on the covers of various magazines even though they are well known drug takers and alcoholics.
The reason people question the magazines' choices of covers is because they will attract a lot of young audiences, the younger audiences are likely to look up to the celebrities featured on magazine covers and there is a huge likelihood that younger people will begin to drink and to take drugs, because they want to be like the people in the magazines.
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