media regulations

Media Regulations

What is a regulation?

Media regulations are rules that protect the public interest and what certain audiences can and can’t view. Media regulation is targeted mostly at press, television and radio. These regulations are usually agreed between media or public organizations.
The BBFC
The bbfc is an organization which is on control of the regulations put on things like movies and music videos, this is because content can be put on the internet by anyone and is hard for the bbfc to stop people uploading what they want on the internet.  Due to this anyone is able to report content which is on the internet if they believe that it shouldn’t be seen by younger viewers.

Internet regulations

When it comes to content on the internet there isn’t actually and official regulation, however there are ‘comment sections’ and viewers have the power to report the content.

TV station regulations
It is essential that TV stations have to have standards and the government or court are able to place reporting restrictions on a case.

A banned music video

The original music video for Robin Thickle’s  ‘Blurred Lines’ is an example of a music video which did have to be regulated by the BBFC. The original music video consisted of women without clothing on and suggested that the content was too inappropriate and wasn’t allowed to be shown on TV as well as online. However, after these regulations were put in place a ‘clean’ version of the video was brought out and was basically the same however, the actors were wearing clothing, meaning it is now allowed to be shown on TV and the internet.