Notes for media: press regulation and freedom
Question:
A lady's daughter us stabbed a and paralysed but survives and go onto have children etc
Science then, the lady and her family have been harassed terribly including turning up at doorstep
Press regulation is the idea of the government regulating the press, and putting boundaries on what and what they can do, and how far the press can go with getting information
One one side of the argument, it says that press regulation is a form of government control and a regulatory system reiterating social control
On the flip side, it could be said that its a parody of a social control agent, and a nosey money scheming institution
However in the lady's case
It's argued that the press violate their freedom by intruding people
Should the press be regulated?
Freedom vs violating people's privacy
Notes:
1: regulation and political bias
Payed for classification by bbfc, heavily biased regulation as its to do with money
People campaigned about breaches of the regular
Netflix content (Internet and online) stuff is still able to be uploaded with little regulation
Media watch are a pressure group; they encourage people to complain about the decline in our moral standards
Bbfc-everyone has freedom to choose what they watch, adults responsibility
Media watch- we should take a moral stance to stop the decline of morality
Could be argued that we need to regulate what children see as it influences them, and children are the future
Bbfc have become more liberal over the years, they don't work for the government
2:
Why posters
Creativity vs conventions
We have conventions for marketing & legal reasons, blurb and copyright
When we follow it. posters it becomes formulaic
Old posters focus more on creativity whereas new posters have to follow set set conventions more
Posters nowadays have too many legal obligations
Eg billing blocks have to be related to the image
Slightly breaking away from modern posters by getting independent artists to do the posters, expanding the creative side
Following conventions too much limits creativity
3:
Levison inquiry; what is the case study
