MEDIA REGULATION BLOG TASK

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

- Regulation is a rule maintained by authority.

- To provide rules and regulations to ensure that organisations operate fairly.

2) What is OFCOM responsible for?

- Regulating broadcast media such as TV and radio.
 
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?

- Protecting under-18, Crime and Privacy. Protecting under-eighteen because the young audience should be protected from anything that could harm their innocence. Crime because a lot of people sometimes become influenced by the media, and Privacy because everyone has a right to have their business out of the media.

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

-  Yes because if Channel 4 previously had been putting on child friendly films at a time where most kids would be winding down by watching a film before going to bed then it would be unfair for them to replace that with a graphic film their parents may not allow them to watch.

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

- Accuracy, Opportunity to reply, Privacy, Harassment and Children.
  
6) Why was the Press Complaints Commission criticised?

- Lack of statutory powers meant that when a newspaper had been found to breach the rules, the best a victim can hope for is an apology.

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

- An inquiry into the "culture, practice and ethics" of the press.

8) What was the PCC replaced with in 2014?

-  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 that newspapers should be regulated like TV and radio so that the audience's privacy won't be harmed since newspapers are kind of known for doing anything to get a story.

10) Why is the internet so difficult to regulate?

-  This is because things are harder to censor nowadays since people find their way around things.

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