PRESS REGULATION

We have worked on press regulation in class. 
Here is the page on the class blog about media regulation. It sets out guidelines. 
In class, we have started the essay: aim to write about a page and a half of A4 and email it to me by Tuesday 3 October.

PREP Write an essay in response to the following exam question: 
"We need stricter media regulation." Discuss (50 marks)

Use the for / against table for arguments
Use the PowerPoint for case studies / examples as well as your own examples
Discourse markers at the start of paragraphs:

• Equally; in addition to this; further examples include; furthermore; similarly; in the same way.
• However; despite this; by contrast; nevertheless; 
• In conclusion; to conclude; ultimately; therefore.

Theory

• 1972 Stanley Cohen: Moral panics: the idea that the press exaggerate the threat of a group of people, sensationalising reports. Certain technologies, for example film, video games, new technologies are seen as 'folk devils'. Adam Curtis on YouTube: See clip
• 1980 Stuart Hall looked at the notion of press as 'the fourth estate' as a means of social control or back door political force https://prezi.com/jfszlucqtxht/forth-estate/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
• 1999 Stokes and Reading argued that self-regulation of the press encourages intrusion 
• 2000 Denis McQuail argues that the internet changes the role of the audience, who are not restricted to local content; there are no barriers so it is hard to regulate such freedom of activity.
• 2004 Dan Gillmor : 'We the Media' We Media and Citizen Journalism challenges traditional ideas of press censorship via online content at grassroots level
• 2006 Tapscott and Williams proposed the theory of Wikinomics. This led to the ideas of peering, free creativity, democracy in press and journalism, thinking globally ( a new business model). These ideas impact on the regulation of content.
• 2010 Stephen Abell ( formerly director of PCC) said that online content is 'so diffuse and not easily contained' that only self-imposed standards by the press would work online.
• 2012 Leveson. Regulation of social media must occur. "We will have to think about how we ensure that the law is capable of equal application and is applied equally and fairly, against the mainstream media and bloggers, tweeters and other online journalists."
• 2012 Ryan Giggs injunction made unsustainable by Twitter posts
• 2014 IPSO introduced; new code of practice established based on findings in Sir Brian Leveson's report after the NoW's infamous phone hacking scandal
• 2015 Charlie Hebdo: 7 January 2015 12 cartoonists were shot dead by three Muslims who were offended by the magazine printing satire about the prophet Muhammed. Should the press be allowed to print images which others may find offensive? 
• 2017 The press regulator Impress funded by Max Mosley is accused of posting tweets and retweets calling mainstream UK newspapers fascist and racist. It could be stripped of its official status.