political contexts and regulation

The Guardian is a daily newspaper published by the Guardian group and owned by the Scott Trust

The Observer is the Sunday newspaper published by the Guardian group. It’s basically the Guardian but released on a Sunday with more of a focus on investigative, long term, journalism. But it will still report on immediate news. It’s the oldest running Sunday newspaper and dates back to 1791!

(FYI: The Guardian Weekly is a weekly summary of the week published by the Guardian group which compiles articles and pieces from the previous seven days into a weekly summary)

Develop ideas that help to improve the world, not just critique it.

Collaborate with readers and others to have greater impact.

Diversify, to have richer reporting from a representative newsroom.

Be meaningful in all our work.

Report fairly on people as well as power and find things out. This underpins all of the above.

objective information- this means it should be free from prejudice caused by personal feelings. 

unbiased- represents people, events and ideas fairly 

reliable information- from trusted sources 

ideology-a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.

- the newspapers both discuss the political issue of Britain leaving EU farages involvement 

- daily mirrors isnt in favour of farage, taking his words and changing it 

- daily express - farage wants silence is remoaers suggests that he aims t positively affect society. 

on the daily mirror the head line ''i stand to fight '' represents her as a loyal prime minister to her country 

newspapers are regulated by ipso  

new term; freedom of the press is the right to circulate opinions in print without censorship by the government 

1.A well known celebrity has just had a new baby, do you send photographers to wait outside her house and try and get pictures of the baby? 

- sell alot in news papers 

- interesting story line  

- exclusive news 

- its morally wrong as the celebrity has just come back from the hospital. 

-newspapers should be more regulated as theres some information put in the news that might be private to others and they might not want it to be put in the news.

Leveson inquiry 

- new self regulation body recommended 

- independent of serving editors, government and business 

- no widespread corruption of police by the press found 

-politicians and press have been too close 

- press behaviour, at times, has been 'outrageous'  

ipso 

- independent press students organisation is a regulator of magazines and newspapers and their online counterparts.

-it is funded by magazines and news paper companies

- any member of the public can make a complaint to the ipso. 

ofcom 

This is the broadcasting regulator.

If a person sees something on TV that they believe should not have been broadcast, they can make a complaint to them.

It could be about advertising, something that was said or something that was offensive. 

Broadcasters are regulated by Ofcom, which is backed by law. 

Other people publishing on the internet, such as bloggers and tweeters, are not regulated as such, but are covered by laws on issues such as libel and contempt of court. 

Some, including MPs and peers, have questioned the wisdom of bringing more regulation to the press and not the wider internet. 

Lord Justice Leveson himself referred to material on the internet as "the elephant in the room".

explain two reasons why online media are hard to regulate (4)

 

one reason why online media are hard to regulate is because things posted online get spread really fast so its hard to be in control of whats posted especially because the freedom of speech people have aswell, people are very quick to comment on something not long after something has been posted online .