No. The media STARTED the satanic panic by putting abject liar on talk shows. The whole idea starts Lawrence Pazder writes a book, with his patient, that he’s sleeping with, that’s more fictitious than Roots, detailing a bunch of “ritual abuse” that never happened. And then Phil Donahue puts him on TV. And the world goes nuts. And none of it actually happened.
I’m telling you DON’T trust the media. They’re the ones that made the whole satanic panic. They lied to you. And provided a whole bunch of free publicity to heavy metal in the process.
These panics aren’t just to laugh at either. Remember the McMartin preschool trial? Pazder was an “expert” witness.