MIGRAIN: Industries - Regulation
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?
Media industries need to be regulated for numerous reasons, to make sure children arent exposed to content not suitable for their age, to make sure bad or potentially illegal content is nowhere to be seen in general, or to make sure content posted has actual relevance to a topic.
2) What is OFCOM responsible for?
OFCOM are responsible for managing media such as TV, Movies, Radio, Telephone services and some branches 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?
Yes i agree, this is because the Wolverine movies are heavily violence based, which is not suitable for any child to see.
5) List five of the sections in the old Press Complaints Commission's Code of Practice.
Because the only compensation offered to those affected was simply just an apology which isnt even expressed as a priority.
OFCOM are responsible for managing media such as TV, Movies, Radio, Telephone services and some branches 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?
Section 1: Protecting the Under-Eighteens
Section 3: Crime
Section 8: Privacy
I think these three are the most important as the youth stage of a human is easiest to scar, and to avoid any form of scarring good regulation of the stated sections.
4) Do you agree with OFCOM that Channel 4 was wrong to broadcast 'Wolverine' at 6.55pm on a Sunday evening? Why?Yes i agree, this is because the Wolverine movies are heavily violence based, which is not suitable for any child to see.
5) List five of the sections in the old Press Complaints Commission's Code of Practice.
Section 1: Protecting the Under-Eighteens
Section 2: Harm and Offence
Section 3: Crime
Section 4: Religion
Section 5: Impartiality and Undue Prominence of Views and opinions
6) Why was the Press Complaints Commission criticised?Because the only compensation offered to those affected was simply just an apology which isnt even expressed as a priority.
7) What was the Leveson enquiry and why was it set up?
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 all press outlets should have some form of regulation to an extent. This is due to the fact that not every person wants to see every story as some may appeal as more sensitive than others, therefore creating a need for a story to be regulated or at least have a warning before exposure.
10) Why is the internet so difficult to regulate?
An inquiry that was held into the “culture, practice and ethics of the press”, due to mainly the phone hacking scandal of the time.
8) What was the PCC replaced with in 2014?
The Independent Press Standards Organisation9) 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 all press outlets should have some form of regulation to an extent. This is due to the fact that not every person wants to see every story as some may appeal as more sensitive than others, therefore creating a need for a story to be regulated or at least have a warning before exposure.
10) Why is the internet so difficult to regulate?
Purely due to the scale and size of the internet, its nearly completely impossible to keep fully regulated as there will always be a new area created where regulations dont exist, therefore opening a gateway to all kinds of wrong or just straight up illegal content.
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