Media regulation: blog tasks

 Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open Factsheet 128: Contemporary Media Regulation. Our Media Factsheet archive can be found at M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets. You can find it online here - you'll need to log in using your Greenford Google login. 


Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks:

1) What is regulation and why do media industries need to be regulated?

  Regulation is a system that is required to provide rules and regulations, ensuring that organisations operate fairly. 
Media Industries need to be regulated because the regulators provide a platform where audiences can complain if they don't like or are offended by any media content.
 
2) What is OFCOM responsible for?

  They're responsible for regulating television, radio, telephone services and some aspects of the internet. 

3) Look at the section on the OFCOM broadcasting code. Which do you think are the three most important sections of the broadcasting code and why?

   Through the Broadcasting Code, Ofcom handles complaints, the three most important sections are...
  1. The " Watershed" ,the things children watch should be monitored as their brains are still developing and what they see at a young age can distort how they see and deal with things when they grow up. 
  2. Impartiality , Biases can be passed down in society no matter what age, if people constantly see one point of view they will soon wholeheartdly believe that view. Proving the hypodermic needle theory as society soon becomes complacent and passive when being given information. 
  3. Protecting children ,although I think it goes under "watershed" I believe it's quite important

4) Do you agree with OFCOM that Channel 4 was wrong to broadcast 'Wolverine' at 6.55pm on a Sunday evening? Why?

     I believe Chanell 4 was well within their right to air Wolverine at that time as it is way past the watershed time.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

5) List five of the sections in the old Press Complaints Commission's Code of Practice. 

    Privacy, accuracy, discrimination, harassment, financial journalism

6) Why was the Press Complaints Commission criticised?

   Because of a lack of statutory powers meaning that when newspapers break the rules they are hardly held accountable, and when they are they flimsily give apologies that rarely hold their actions to account. An example of this is with the Sunday Mirror when they published a story about a woman who they believed was a public relations professional, who received explicit photos from a Conservative MP 

7) What was the Leveson enquiry and why was it set up?

  It was held  2011-2012 and was an enquiry into the "culture practise and ethics of the press"
  It was set up mainly because of the so called hacking scandal.

8) What was the PCC replaced with in 2014?

    It was replaced by the independent press standards organisation(IPSO)

9) What is your opinion on press regulation? Is a free press an important part of living in a democracy or should newspapers face statutory regulation like TV and radio?

   I think there is a necessity to press regulation whereby it doesn't infringe on peoples personal liberties. However freedom of the press is essential to a working democratic state which is why I believe that there should be a basic set of regulations that all newspapers should follow. Such as those pertaining to privacy and human rights.

10) Why is the internet so difficult to regulate?

The internet is not just one platform, it is in almost everything that we use nowadays. There is not just one place it is located and most of it is UGC(user generated content) and there is no possible way at this moment in time we can regulate what people all around the world post. If we tried to democracy itself would soon dissipate. 

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