Current And Media Affairs In Public Ser
Current and Media affairs in public services
Media regulation and influences
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The dictionary definition of regulation, ‘The act of regulating or the state of being regulated.’- http://www.thefreedictionary.com/regulation
Self-regulation dictionary meaning, ‘control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.’- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/self-regulation
Data Protection act.
The data protection act is very confidential and data is protected by the law. Media is regulated by the data protection act so they are unable to breach confidential and to preserve information of individuals who are protected by the data protection act.
The main reason why this act was brought into place was to protect people’s personnel data and for a right to privacy, an example of where this was breached before the act came into place was when two boys called Robert Thompson and Jon Venables killed 2 year old James Bulger and all of the UK hated then for what they did because it was so horrible and wrong that after they had done there sentence is prison they were given new identities so that they are protected from being attack from members of the public. The Broadcasting Standards Commission, Ofcom and the Press Complaints Commission have to follow the data protection act and have to regulate it.
The Broadcasting Standards Commission was made by the Brosdcasting act, it's main feature are to produce codes of conduct regarding broadcasting standards, to evealuate and assess complaints made against TV and radio programmers and to conduct reasearch into issues of standards in TV and radio broadcasting.
OffCom is funded by the fees that come in from industrys for regualating broascasting and communication networks and some from the government. Offcoms main functions are to regulate TV and radio, they are responsible for fixed line telecoms and mobile
Media regulation and influences
P3
The dictionary definition of regulation, ‘The act of regulating or the state of being regulated.’- http://www.thefreedictionary.com/regulation
Self-regulation dictionary meaning, ‘control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.’- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/self-regulation
Data Protection act.
The data protection act is very confidential and data is protected by the law. Media is regulated by the data protection act so they are unable to breach confidential and to preserve information of individuals who are protected by the data protection act.
The main reason why this act was brought into place was to protect people’s personnel data and for a right to privacy, an example of where this was breached before the act came into place was when two boys called Robert Thompson and Jon Venables killed 2 year old James Bulger and all of the UK hated then for what they did because it was so horrible and wrong that after they had done there sentence is prison they were given new identities so that they are protected from being attack from members of the public. The Broadcasting Standards Commission, Ofcom and the Press Complaints Commission have to follow the data protection act and have to regulate it.
The Broadcasting Standards Commission was made by the Brosdcasting act, it's main feature are to produce codes of conduct regarding broadcasting standards, to evealuate and assess complaints made against TV and radio programmers and to conduct reasearch into issues of standards in TV and radio broadcasting.
OffCom is funded by the fees that come in from industrys for regualating broascasting and communication networks and some from the government. Offcoms main functions are to regulate TV and radio, they are responsible for fixed line telecoms and mobile