Regulation
Regulation
1) The amount of staff the Leicester Mercury had was 130 journalists. Perch see's the paper taking massive opportunities allowing them to create all sorts of different content which allow them to communicate with the audience.
2) He views the phone hacking scandal as something that should not have happened and he views the news regulatory system as problematic and should be dealt with in a legal way. He states that the a small number of the press behave in a total unacceptable way. He also states that regulation isn't useful as they don't look at regional press or a small weekly newspaper.
3) The IPSO stand for the Independent Press Standards Organisation and is a " independent regulator for the newspaper and magazine industry in the UK."
Many of the things that they do are:
What are the arguments for and against statutory regulation of the newspaper industry?
One of the reasons against statutory regulation of the newspaper industry is the increase of unethical journalism. An example of this can be shown is the phone hacking scandal concerning the murdered teenager, Milly Dower. News of the World hacked into the dead teenager Milly Dower's voice calls which obviously was not allowed by the Metropolitan Police as they was a investigation about the murder. This shows that the newspaper industry does indeed need to be regulated in order to prevent incidents such as this and due to the increase of more available news that can be reported by journalists and the news, an incident may happen again due to newspapers being heavily focused on exclusives. Also, the media does not do a good job at policing itself and with the increase of instant accessibility, it may be hard for readers to be hidden from such stories if they were to arise.
However, the argument against this is that hacking or things relating to it may still be done by newspapers however they might be more likely to do it in secret to avoid breaching the Editor's Code.The heavy penalisation of what happens if they were caught to do hacking or things related to that might cause newspapers to find ways of doing it discreetly. Due to the importance of shock value and exclusivity of newspaper content in our current day society due to people in society being easily sensitised to heavy topics or news stories, newspapers might feel that the only way for them to compete with the digital print or even stay relevant because of their dying industry is finding news stories that either no other newspaper has or is very shocking and if hacking allows them to come across this information then they might be obligated to do so.
However, a counter argument for this is that newspaper are obviously going to avoid doing things such as hacking due to government regulation but also due to repercussions. An example of this would be News of the World which was the newspaper involved in the phone hacking scandal and the backlash from this caused the newspaper to promptly close down even though the newspaper was running for 168 years from 1843 to 2011 and was at one time the highest-selling English-language newspaper in the world and even when it closed down it had one of the highest circulations from an English newspapers. This statutory regulation is beneficial as it prevents things such as private information from being leaked or being used for a news story but also prevents the newspaper from making any profit on unethical matters and if there are family members that are involved to a story, they might be mentally affected thus showing how statutory regulation as a beneficial.
However if the newspaper industry starts to become regulated, the government might start to regulate in a way that might support their political ideology or might use it as a way from their image being tarnished. This to the normal readers might not be blatant or obvious and because of this members of the parliament might start to abuse or misuse this in a way that can benefit them. As a result this might cause things like corruption.
2) He views the phone hacking scandal as something that should not have happened and he views the news regulatory system as problematic and should be dealt with in a legal way. He states that the a small number of the press behave in a total unacceptable way. He also states that regulation isn't useful as they don't look at regional press or a small weekly newspaper.
3) The IPSO stand for the Independent Press Standards Organisation and is a " independent regulator for the newspaper and magazine industry in the UK."
Many of the things that they do are:
- Make sure that member newspapers and magazines follow the Editor's Code
- Investigate complaints about material that may breach the Editor's Code
- Make newspapers or magazines publish corrections if they breach the Editor's Code
4) Perch states that people could choose if they wanted to buy a specific newspaper however they ignore it. He also states that there are "a million different voices" however people choose the views in the print. He says that the Daily Mail is very big as a newspaper company so therefore it isn't there fault on what people choose to read. He also says the same statement towards the Sun which is that they are a big newspaper company however things like the Left brand the readers as stupid.
5) I think that it depends on the viewership. If an audience of a certain political party watch a broadcaster of news or a TV channel, it depends on which one is producing or airing better content for the audience to consume. Although things like digital print allow the reader to get accessible content far much quicker than most broadcasters of news, it depends on if that specific news is suitable to the viewer or reader.
What are the arguments for and against statutory regulation of the newspaper industry?
One of the reasons against statutory regulation of the newspaper industry is the increase of unethical journalism. An example of this can be shown is the phone hacking scandal concerning the murdered teenager, Milly Dower. News of the World hacked into the dead teenager Milly Dower's voice calls which obviously was not allowed by the Metropolitan Police as they was a investigation about the murder. This shows that the newspaper industry does indeed need to be regulated in order to prevent incidents such as this and due to the increase of more available news that can be reported by journalists and the news, an incident may happen again due to newspapers being heavily focused on exclusives. Also, the media does not do a good job at policing itself and with the increase of instant accessibility, it may be hard for readers to be hidden from such stories if they were to arise.
However, the argument against this is that hacking or things relating to it may still be done by newspapers however they might be more likely to do it in secret to avoid breaching the Editor's Code.The heavy penalisation of what happens if they were caught to do hacking or things related to that might cause newspapers to find ways of doing it discreetly. Due to the importance of shock value and exclusivity of newspaper content in our current day society due to people in society being easily sensitised to heavy topics or news stories, newspapers might feel that the only way for them to compete with the digital print or even stay relevant because of their dying industry is finding news stories that either no other newspaper has or is very shocking and if hacking allows them to come across this information then they might be obligated to do so.
However, a counter argument for this is that newspaper are obviously going to avoid doing things such as hacking due to government regulation but also due to repercussions. An example of this would be News of the World which was the newspaper involved in the phone hacking scandal and the backlash from this caused the newspaper to promptly close down even though the newspaper was running for 168 years from 1843 to 2011 and was at one time the highest-selling English-language newspaper in the world and even when it closed down it had one of the highest circulations from an English newspapers. This statutory regulation is beneficial as it prevents things such as private information from being leaked or being used for a news story but also prevents the newspaper from making any profit on unethical matters and if there are family members that are involved to a story, they might be mentally affected thus showing how statutory regulation as a beneficial.
However if the newspaper industry starts to become regulated, the government might start to regulate in a way that might support their political ideology or might use it as a way from their image being tarnished. This to the normal readers might not be blatant or obvious and because of this members of the parliament might start to abuse or misuse this in a way that can benefit them. As a result this might cause things like corruption.
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