Events lacking significance can be magnified by the media.

Evidence

The behaviour itself was not particularly new or startling. … The Mods and Rockers didn’t become news because they were new; they were presented as new to justify their creation as news. — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics, 221

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics: the…, 221
• XREF: connects to: Media exaggeration shapes public perception of events significantly. — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics: the…, 185; Public perception of deviance is driven by media narratives. — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics: the…, 219; Media shapes public knowledge by defining events and scenarios people cannot access directly (+7 more)