MIGRAIN: Regulation

 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? Systems of regulation are required to provide rules and regulations to ensure that organisations operate fairly.

2) What is OFCOM responsible for? In the media industry there are several regulatory bodies that exist to monitor the way that their industries work. Broadcast media (TV and Radio) are regulated by OFCOM – the OFfice of COMmunication and the advertising industry is regulated by the Advertising Standards Authority.

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? Crime because it is useful and important for audience to know what to look out for. Protecting under 18s because safety for them is important for audience to know. Privacy because its important audience know boundaries. 

4) Do you agree with OFCOM that Channel 4 was wrong to broadcast 'Wolverine' at 6.55pm on a Sunday evening? Why? No because it id their decision and they aren't forcing anyone to watch it.

5) List five of the sections in the old Press Complaints Commission's Code of Practice.  Accuracy, opportunity to help, privacy, harassment, children.

6) Why was the Press Complaints Commission criticised? 

7) What was the Leveson enquiry and why was it set up? Throughout 2011 and 2012, an inquiry into the “culture, practice  and ethics of the press” was held, mainly as a result of the so-called  phone hacking scandal. In January 2007, Clive Goodman (the royal  reporter of the News of the World newspaer) and Glenn Mulcaire (a  private investigator, employed by Goodman) were imprisoned for  illegally intercepting phone calls connected to the royal family. At  the time, the News of the World claimed that Goodman was a rogue  reporter, working alone but it emerged during the Leveson Enquiry that  phone hacking was much more widespread throughout the industry.  The enquiry also looked at other areas of press behaviour that were  considered questionable.

8) What was the PCC replaced with in 2014? Newspapers

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 a free press is important because u need variety in the different type of media that is being shown and exposed. 

10) Why is the internet so difficult to regulate? Technology advancing fast.

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