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Court case what do you know
Debates in regulation
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Debates focus around the following
1. Self regulating vs. state regulation
2. Press Freedom or public interest vs. state control
3. Freedom of expression vs. Privacy i.e. article 10 human rights act freedom of
expression v’s article 8 privacy.
4. The effects debate and criticism of that (this is the foundation of this area)
5 Bias v’s impartiality: The press would argue that it operates in the public
interest, but the reality is newspapers are biased because they have commercial
pressures to sell newspapers, i.e phone hacking scandal, they have lost public
trust, they are also biased because they support political parties.
Media specific debate and problems with regulation and the internet and web 2.0
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Candidates need to show a deep understanding of a debate, with application and
assessment of theories, research and conflicting ideas, with a range of
contemporary examples, at least one reference to the past and one projection for
the future.
Question 3
• What do you know about how effective regulatory
practices are in the UK?
• Two main areas: BBFC and PCC, these are the main
areas you should talk about, but you should contrast
how they are regulated with other media why should
you do this? And what debate does this lead to?
• What does contemporary mean?
• Break this down into past, present and future
• The question is asking you what has changed
What are the debates here?
• This question comes down to whether the PCC
and the BBFC should remain self regulating
• Why is it if they are both self regulated why is
it the BBFC has a statutory duty, but the PCC
only has an ethical duty?
• Does media specific regulation work?
• Can media specific regualtion work with web
2.0, and global media access
What case studies could use here to
support your argument?
What theorists might you use?
Question 4
• What are the wider social issues relating to
media regulation?
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What are the debates here?
• Media effects
• Can you regulate a social media
• BBFC liberalisation has changed because of
social changes.
• Regulation is now moving towards social
responsibility rather than statutory regulation
Theorists
Theorists
What case studies could use here to
support your argument?
What theorists might you use?