Regulations
The regulatory body for newspapers is IPSO, The Independent Press Standards Organisation. They have an editors that newspapers have to follow. There are 16 points in the Editors code. A few of these are: Accuracy, Privacy, Harassment, Intrusion into grief or shock and Reporting suicide.
Television's regulatory body is OFCOM. This deals with live TV, Radio and pre recorded tv. For live Tv and Radio there is a 10 second delay so if something goes wrong they can quickly switch to something else. OFCOM has ten Broadcasting codes that must be followed. A few of these are: Protecting under eighteens, Harm and Offence, Crime, Disorder, Hatred and Abuse, Religion and Fairness.
People are able to complain about newspapers on the IPSO website. These will then be checked by IPSO and will be resolved. If a newspaper has been found to be in breach of the code IPSO can make them write an apology or punish them. An example of this is Chapman v Daily Mirror. The Daily mirror published an article called 'suicide over menopause'. The article stated that 'a former mayor killed herself after struggling with the menopause'. They included her name and a photo. However Gillian Chapman contacted IPSO and claimed the article was inaccurate. She was the former mayor but she was not dead. The dead woman had the same name as her but was completely unrelated. IPSO sent the complaint to the Daily Mirror who wrote an apology letter and corrected the article.
OFCOM fined the BBC £400,000 in 2008 for deceiving their viewers. They got staff members to act as contestants on phone in competitions or convinced people to call in even though they had no chance of winning.
Television's regulatory body is OFCOM. This deals with live TV, Radio and pre recorded tv. For live Tv and Radio there is a 10 second delay so if something goes wrong they can quickly switch to something else. OFCOM has ten Broadcasting codes that must be followed. A few of these are: Protecting under eighteens, Harm and Offence, Crime, Disorder, Hatred and Abuse, Religion and Fairness.
People are able to complain about newspapers on the IPSO website. These will then be checked by IPSO and will be resolved. If a newspaper has been found to be in breach of the code IPSO can make them write an apology or punish them. An example of this is Chapman v Daily Mirror. The Daily mirror published an article called 'suicide over menopause'. The article stated that 'a former mayor killed herself after struggling with the menopause'. They included her name and a photo. However Gillian Chapman contacted IPSO and claimed the article was inaccurate. She was the former mayor but she was not dead. The dead woman had the same name as her but was completely unrelated. IPSO sent the complaint to the Daily Mirror who wrote an apology letter and corrected the article.
OFCOM fined the BBC £400,000 in 2008 for deceiving their viewers. They got staff members to act as contestants on phone in competitions or convinced people to call in even though they had no chance of winning.
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