American Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000

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American Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000 is written by Sarah A. Hughes and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3030836363 (ISBN 10) and 9783030836368 (ISBN 13).

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.