The Power of the Media
- Created by: alicegrieve
- Created on: 12-02-18 20:47
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- The power of the media
- OFCOM
- Furthers the interests of media consumers
- Protects consumers from any harmful content
- Safeguards people from being unfairly treated on TV & radio programmes
- Ensures a diversity of media across TV, radio & electronic communications within the UK
- 2014 Survey
- 96% of homes had digital TV
- 93% of adults in the UK owned/used a mobile phone
- Formal controls on the media
- Libel
- forbid publication of an untrue statement which may bring ridicule in society
- Official Secrets Act
- criminal offence to report without authorisation any activity the government deems to be an 'official secret'
- Obscene publications act
- forbids the publication of anything a court considers to be obscene & indecent
- Libel
- State Ownership
- BBC is state owned - funded through license fees
- the trust has a duty to ensure that the BBC represents the interests of the license payers
- must compete with commercial broadcasters by attracting large enough audiences to justify the license fees
- There are different types of state ownership around the world
- in china the government directly control media content
- BBC is state owned - funded through license fees
- Private/Independant Businesses
- Companies owned by individuals, families, shareholders etc.
- Murdoch owns news corporations, films, magazines, TV programmes etc.
- owners have potential to choose what info audiences receive
- Governments influence the media
- Official press conference
- Leaks & off-the record briefings
- journalists giving favourable exposure to gov will be given preferential treatment in future
- Spin doctors
- release info that show gov in a bad light when media is distracted by sensational story/holiday period
- Refusual to issue broadcasting licenses to those deemed unsuitable
- Refusual to allow the use of some computer software
- Google withdrew from China as that government was hacking into Google
- Electronic surveillance of emails, monitoring of websites & intercepts of phone calls
- May restrict peoples willingness to communicate freely
- OFCOM
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