Wednesday, 13 December 2017

Regulation of Newspapers

Problems with regulation i the 21st century - the internet - is hard to be regulated as people can be anonymous. 

Political cartoon in papers - conventions:
Caricatures 


News International phone hacking scandal. The News International phone-hacking scandal is a controversy involving the now defunct News of the World and other British newspapers published by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation. Employees of the newspaper were accused of engaging in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories

The prime minister David Cameron announced on 6 July 2011 that a public inquiry, known as the Leveson Inquiry, would look into phone hacking and police bribery by the News of the World, consider the wider culture and ethics of the British newspaper industry and that the Press Complaints Commission would be replaced "entirely".[1][2] A number of arrests and convictions followed, most notably of the former News of the World managing editor Andy Coulson.

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Newspapers and online REVISION

Newspapers very often construct a binary opposition between left and right wing policies the times is vertical and horizontally integrated ...