Newspaper Regulation

Newspaper Regulation

Theory - Regulation - Livingstone and Hunt

• Regulation is the laws, rules and standards in order to protect people. An example is, laws in society and school rules. And again, regulation is needed in order to protect people from potentially harmful content.

• There are regulatory frameworks for particular media products such as BBFC, PEGI, IPSO and PCC.
• IPSO - Independent Press Standards Organisation.

• The issues and concept of conglomeration can affect regulation of newspapers as it can be very difficult to enforce regulation as these large conglomerate companies also own subsidiaries, making it harder to regulate.
• The further issues of regulation in the 21st century and in the digital age is the privacy, ethics and where the line crosses.
• Can and can't - Law.                                                                                                         Should and shouldn't - Standards/ethics.

Other media products

• OFCOM (Office of Communications) - A regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries.
• BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) - They give age ratings to movies and TV shows, to protect younger audiences from seeing content not suitable to them. The issues with this is places such as online streaming with no age rating.
• PEGI (Pan European Game Information) - They give age ratings to video games, to protect younger audiences from playing harmful games. The issues with this is young audiences still access high age rating games.

Outside

• PCC (Press Complaint Commission) - They provide services for the public to write complaints about news articles found in the news, newspapers and magazines. Not much funding is givenand some articles can be close to breaking rules but don't.

Examples

• Daily Mirror - Women's messy bedrooms.
• News of the World - Phone hacking and tapping.
• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle resigning due to privacy issues - newspaper used a private letter from Meghan to her dad.