Who s twisting words The lead begins The knockout game is one of many names given to assaults therefore knockout game assault as it is a type of assault We need only be concerned with common usage not some strict or arbitrary legal definition Right I see there is some discussion on the extent to which the phenomenon actually exists and whether it is to some degree a media manufactured problem If that is the focus of the article then knockout game moral panic probably would not be acceptable unless there were a strong consensus that it indeed was that More likely the title would be something like Controversy over media coverage of so called knockout games