1) What is regulation and why do media industries need to be regulated?
Systems of regulation are where rules and regulations are provided to organisations in order to ensure that they operate fairly and to monitor they way that their industries work.
2) What is OFCOM responsible for?
Regulating broadcast media (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 the under-eighteens - content should children should have restrictions in order to ensure that they aren't exposed to adult content.
Crime - illegal activity online is serious and should be something that OFCOM regulates meticulously
Privacy - people's privacy matters and if people's data is breached OFCOM could lose the media that they regulate.
4) Do you agree with OFCOM that Channel 4 was wrong to broadcast 'Wolverine' at 6.55pm on a Sunday evening? Why?
I agree with OFCOM that Channel 4 was in wrong. This is because watershed has been put in place for all other channels and therefore Channel 4 is not an exception to this rule and must abide by it too.
5) List five of the sections in the old Press Complaints Commission's Code of Practice.
Accuracy, opportunity to reply, privacy, harassment, intrusion into grief and shock
6) Why was the Press Complaints Commission criticised?
There is a lack of statutory powers, which can lead to newspapers breaching the rules.
7) What was the Leveson enquiry and why was it set up?
An inquiry into the "culture, practice and ethics of the press." It was set up as a result of the so-called phone hacking scandal.
8) What was the PCC replaced with in 2014?
The Independent Press Organisation
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 there should be free press and shouldn't be regulated in the same way as TV and radio. Newspapers are made to be opinionated in order to grasp the readers attention and interest.
10) Why is the internet so difficult to regulate?
There is not just one 'producer' on the internet. People are able to freely post what they want which also makes it more challenging to regulate who is able to view this content.
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