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‘Amazing Stories’: Australian Newspapers and Anti-Spy Panic, 1910–1945©
Media History Pub Date : 2021-07-03 , DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2021.1947213
Caryn Coatney

Moral panic has become a popular concept to explain a media frenzy that has provoked public alarm. A largely unexplored area of panic has been the exceptional allegations of pro-Nazi secret agents in Australia during World War II. Moral panics have often been viewed as the outcome of the media acting as a single entity to generate wild reporting and mass hysteria. This article proposes a refinement of the concept by showing that the press published varied reporting about a government crackdown on so-called fascist spies. The article focuses on the British accused spy and self-proclaimed journalist, Adela Pankhurst, and John Curtin, a hard-hitting labour reporter who became Australia’s wartime prime minister. Rival newspapers provided stylised expressions of civility and outrage about the sensational crackdown. The news of a battle against powerful traitors also shaped popular views of Curtin’s leadership and Australia’s need to uphold a democratic British identity.



中文翻译:

“惊人的故事”:澳大利亚报纸和反间谍恐慌,1910-1945©

道德恐慌已成为一个流行的概念来解释引起公众恐慌的媒体狂潮。一个很大程度上未被探索的恐慌领域是二战期间澳大利亚亲纳粹秘密特工的特殊指控。道德恐慌通常被视为媒体作为单一实体产生疯狂报道和大规模歇斯底里的结果。本文通过展示媒体发布了关于政府镇压所谓的法西斯间谍的各种报道,提出了对该概念的改进。这篇文章重点介绍了被指控为英国间谍和自称记者的阿德拉·潘克赫斯特 (Adela Pankhurst) 和强硬的劳工记者约翰·科廷 (John Curtin),后者成为了澳大利亚的战时总理。竞争对手的报纸以程式化的方式表达了对耸人听闻的镇压行动的礼貌和愤慨。

更新日期:2021-07-03
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