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- 1. Reece Mechan PR18 Legal and Regulatory Constraints in Radio According to BBC guidelines when reporting stories about or involving minors they “must ensure that the physical and emotional welfare of children and young people are protected during the broadcast of our content”.The mainconcern of the BBC when doing reports involving minors is the physical andemotional welfareof the childrenandthattheyare protected.The BBC makessure that the interest and safety of minors take priority over any editorial requirement. The BBC has other principles.One of themisthattheyhave toensure thatminorshave not developedanyunnecessary anxiety or distress through their involvement of the news story or as a result of hearing the story. The Office of Communications (Ofcom) says that the purpose of having the guidelines is to ensure that minorsare keptsafe. Ofcom’sguidelines say that some news stories are allowed to be shown at appropriate times.The newsstoriesspokeaboutare usuallyjudged by the nature of the content, the nature of the station,the age range of the childreninthe audience, and the time of day and the start to finish time of the programme. An example of this would be if there was an inappropriate showbeingbroadcastedit will be broadcasted after the watershed time or there will be a warning before the show is aired so parents know whether to let their child watch it. RadioNewsbroadcastershave totake legal constraintsintoconsiderationbefore airing.Anexample of thisisif a newsstory is about a young offender there are not allowed to be named on the radio. Thisis notallowedinordertoprotect them. One of the otherprinciplesof the BBC is that they must make sure people under 18 aren’t caused any anxiety and distress from their involvement in the news story or by the release of the story. The involvement of children and young people must be editoriallyjustified,andconsentmustbe obtained as appropriate to the circumstances of the child. The nature of the contributionandoutputandsupporthas to be givento themwhenand if needed. Contemptof court isan offense of beingdisrespectful towardsanddisobedient to a court of law. An example of this is the story about The Sun and The Mirror being fined when speaking about ChristopherJefferiesinvariousarticles.The Mirror got fined £50,000 and The Sun got fined £18,000. The court then ruled that both had breached the contempt laws when discussing the arrest of Christopher Jefferies with their articles. The law of defamation was created to protect a person’s reputation and good name against that may be false or derogatory. This means that when someone is saying or writing something that is false orcan damage the person’sreputation. A famous libel and defamation case is when a tabloid magazine released an article about David Beckham hiring a prostitute. David Beckham ended up losing a court ruling alongside losing a £25 million lawsuit because he couldn’t prove that the magazine had made false claims in a malicious way. In the BBC guidelinesitstatesthat“onpollingdaythe BBC,in commonwith other broadcasters, will cease to report campaigns from 06:00 until the polls close. Coverage will be restricted to uncontroversial factual accounts, such as the appearance of politicians at polling stations or the weather.Subjectswhichhave been at issue or part of the campaign, or other controversial matters relating to the election, must not receive coverage on polling day, to ensure that nothing in the BBC’s outputcan be construedas influencingthe ballot when the polls are open.” This is so people can’t get influenced about whom they will be voting for.
- 2. Reece Mechan PR18 The official secretsactoffersthe protectionof statsecretsandofficial information,mainlyrelatedto national security. It’s a criminal offense for the information, documents and other information relating to the national security to be leaked or disclosed. An example of this would be when a former Royal Navy Petty Officer Edward DeVenney was sentenced to eight years in prison for breaches of the Official Secrets act. The first news story I will be analysing is a seriousandpublicintereststory.Thisarticle is about a transgender girl, called Corey Maison, which due to American laws can’t use a female toilet. CoreyMaison came into the public eye after a picture sparked a heateddebate onFacebook. The photo was posted onto Facebook by photographer Meg Bitton who wanted to raise awareness of transgenderissues. The gallery of images of transgenderpeople waspostedinprotest against the laws that have been made in NorthCarolina.These lawsstate thatpeople must use the bathroom that matches the gender on their birth certificate. Eventhoughthisnewsarticle discussesastorywhichis veryseriousIdon’tthinkit would be seen as having the same immediacy as a celebrity scandal or as a more local crime story; i.e. a body being foundor somebody going missing. I think this because the article is about the laws that have been made in America and it doesn’t affect Britain whatsoever. With its lack of affect onto Britain this story wouldn’t have been talked about on news programmes in depth like other stories. The good thing about this story even getting a tiny bit of a segment in news programmes or an article in the Daily Mirror or Daily Mail is that due to the lack of knowledge older generations may have of Transgendercommunities thisarticle could give them the opportunity to learn and maybe become more accepting. The secondnewsarticle Ihave chosen to analyse is a public interest article. The story is about Sharon Osborne’s split fromBlack SabbathlegendOzzyOsborne after 33 years of marriage. According to the article Sharon made reference towardsBeyoncé’slatestalbum which is about cheating and betrayal. The story is of public interest to the UK because Ozzy was in Black Sabbath and Sharonwas on the judgingpanel of the X Factor. Because the couple have been together for so long there will be some
- 3. Reece Mechan PR18 follow up stories like when the divorce is finalised and who is keeping the house.