Newspaper regulation: blog tasks
Task One: Media Magazine article and questions
Read the Media Magazine article: From Local Press to National Regulator in MM56 (p55). You'll find the article in our Media Magazine archive here. Once you've read the article, answer the following questions:
1) Keith Perch used to edit the Leicester Mercury. How many staff did it have at its peak and where does Perch see the paper in 10 years' time?
Employed 130 journalists and thinks in ten years time if it is still print it will be weekly, extremely expensive and have very small circulation.
2) How does Perch view the phone hacking scandal?
Doesn't think regulation is the answer, knows many people point to Leveson and the fact he held a massive enquiry but he doesn't think he looked carefully enough at what is happening in the regional press or in small weekly papers. He thinks his form of regulation is unacceptable and that actually what people really want is to tame the press.
3) What does IPSO stand for and how does it work?
It stands for Independent press standard organisation. a newspaper has 28 days to deal with complaint. if it hasn't been resolved , the complaint can then take it to IPSO Complaints Committee, which will decide if the Editors Code of Practice has been broken. If it has, the committee can insist on corrections and demand that they be placed on a particular page.
4) What is Perch's view of newspaper ownership?
Doesn't believe that businesses such as Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which owns The Sun, The Times and 39% of Sky, should be forced to sell some of their titles to ensure that no one person or company can control too much of the media industry and thus control the agenda.
5) Do you agree with his view that broadcast news should have less regulation so that TV channels can support particular political parties or people?
I agree with the fact that they should have less regulation due to the fact that certain people which control and variety and numerous news corporations can be come over powerful and have too much dominance within society which can undermine smaller independent companies to generate revenue and become more well known.
Read the Media Magazine article: From Local Press to National Regulator in MM56 (p55). You'll find the article in our Media Magazine archive here. Once you've read the article, answer the following questions:
1) Keith Perch used to edit the Leicester Mercury. How many staff did it have at its peak and where does Perch see the paper in 10 years' time?
Employed 130 journalists and thinks in ten years time if it is still print it will be weekly, extremely expensive and have very small circulation.
2) How does Perch view the phone hacking scandal?
Doesn't think regulation is the answer, knows many people point to Leveson and the fact he held a massive enquiry but he doesn't think he looked carefully enough at what is happening in the regional press or in small weekly papers. He thinks his form of regulation is unacceptable and that actually what people really want is to tame the press.
3) What does IPSO stand for and how does it work?
It stands for Independent press standard organisation. a newspaper has 28 days to deal with complaint. if it hasn't been resolved , the complaint can then take it to IPSO Complaints Committee, which will decide if the Editors Code of Practice has been broken. If it has, the committee can insist on corrections and demand that they be placed on a particular page.
4) What is Perch's view of newspaper ownership?
Doesn't believe that businesses such as Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which owns The Sun, The Times and 39% of Sky, should be forced to sell some of their titles to ensure that no one person or company can control too much of the media industry and thus control the agenda.
5) Do you agree with his view that broadcast news should have less regulation so that TV channels can support particular political parties or people?
I agree with the fact that they should have less regulation due to the fact that certain people which control and variety and numerous news corporations can be come over powerful and have too much dominance within society which can undermine smaller independent companies to generate revenue and become more well known.
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