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Industry and Regulation

In the media industry there are many factors and filters that have been placed forth to shield us from the real picture. This has more commonly been known to be a regulation that has been put into place to shield us from the point of views that have been placed by media companies. In this response I will be discussing the relevance of regulation and the issue it has in today’s modern society. I will be using the works of Long and Wall (2012) alongside Curran and Seaton (2009) to validate my thoughts.
Regulations are almost laws that have been put into practice by the Government, however they aren’t just put into place for the sake of it, and they have purpose. Curran and Deaton discussed the importance of policies and how they work within media industries. As a great example they used the story of how the Daily Mirror lost its rights and entitlements due to their political views and ‘successful prosecution’. But due to the campaigns and suspension the Lord Chancellor overturned it. It can be argued that the use of power being in the wrong hands can alter the way things are perceived and quite contradictive.
On the other hand Long and Wall focused on authorisation of regulated and unregulated media. Both Long and Wall and Curran and Seaton made some valid points in their arguments however I truly believe in the outcome of regulation, policies and restrictions, but to an extent. Not everyone likes to be told what they can and can’t do and because of this it creates a rebellion. A question appeared in Long and Wall’s work and it asked ‘Does regulation achieve policy goals?’ To this my answer is a yes and a no.
The Government is shown to be in charge of the regulations that have been put into place, but how do we know if they are completely not influential in any way? When I first started reading about this subject I was all for it, believing in that it was for the greater good, but now as I continue my research I can’t help but find faults in some of the ideologies that stand before me. If I was top continue my research I would have to delve further into the philosophical reasoning’s behind this topic to understand and maybe reason with it more.

References
Long, P and Wall, T. (2012). Media Regulation and Policy. In Media Studies: Text, Production, Context. 2nd ed. Oxon: Routledge. pp: 204-232
Curran, J and Seaton J (2009). Power without responsibility. 7th ed. Routledge. London pp 55-63

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