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Swine Fever

Jim Riley

4th May 2009

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Just when you’re trying to settle down and revise, along comes - swine fever. But, is it a moral panic? On balance, no, not quite. The illness is certainly attracting a fair bit of press coverage, but if you look carefully at Cohen’s typology of the stages and elements involved in a moral panic, I think you’ll see that swine fever is missing a few of the essential ingredients.Have a look though at Peter Wilby’s column in today’s Guardian for some interesting comment on how the press has handled the case.

Back with more revision tomorrow.

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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