Tuesday, 25 September 2012
AOB 6-Regulation for Music Press
All music magazines are regulated by the self regulatory Press Complaints Comission (PCC). Lord Hunt is the Chairman of the PCC from October 2011. The PCC is funded through the sales of magazines and newspapers. The code deals with various complaints theses are privacy, harassment, crimes against children, victims of sexual assault and discrimination charges. However the most common complaint made is about the accuracy of the magazines articles. Although a lot of such included in the press is seen as inappropriate, editors just claim it is for the good of the public to know. The PCC has been criticism for there lack of action in certain incidents like the phone hacking affair and as such the PCC has been called in to be replaced.
Sunday, 23 September 2012
AOB 6- Regulation for Music Video
The Office of Communications mostly called Ofcom is the regulatory body for the postal, broadcasting and telecommunications companies within the United Kingdom. It has a duty to represent the citizens of the UK by providing protection from what could be considered to cause emotively, physical or mental harm and offence to anyone. When taking this into account Ofcom have to take into account the right the broadcaster has to impact information and ideas on an audience and that the audience have the right to view them without unnecessary interference. Ofcom have to deal with all sorts of complaints from music videos and television shows.
When it comes to music videos Ofcom has a guideline to follow rule 1.3 of a guild to insure the following; protect under eighteens and to maintain the watershed of 9 o'clock is maintained.
When the music video S&M was broadcasted on a pop/RandB music channel called WTF short for Weekly Top Forty at 11.25 of a Saturday morning. It get a lot of complaints about the sexual themes included in the lyrics and visuals so a investigation was done into whether it breached Rule 1.3. When taking this into account Ofcom have to take into account the right the broadcaster have to impact informations and ideas on an audience and that the audience have the right to view them without unnecessary interference. The investigate ended with saying that it did, like many other music videos, breach this rule and it would had to be shown after the watershed and that the video will be investigated farther.
With the fact that the video does contain lyrics and visuals which display s&m content that kids simply would not recognise as normal sexual behaviour, meaning that it may be inappoirate for kids to be made aware of it and may shock them too much. It is also the case that many adults find it inappropriate.
However many people would say that as the channel has no real child audience. The video is only really a over the top fantasy version of the fetish and no real fetish material is used.
It seems that maybe the parents with children viewing this channel or any other music video of this nature need to be more responsible for their own child. Also the fact that other music videos, T.V shows that have similar themes are viewed by children before the watershed.
So, I conclude this by saying that the right decision about it was made. It has inappropriate content that kids would not understand and do not need to be made aware of. Although it is hard for this sort of thing to be edited down it should be done before being shown before the watershed.
When it comes to music videos Ofcom has a guideline to follow rule 1.3 of a guild to insure the following; protect under eighteens and to maintain the watershed of 9 o'clock is maintained.
When the music video S&M was broadcasted on a pop/RandB music channel called WTF short for Weekly Top Forty at 11.25 of a Saturday morning. It get a lot of complaints about the sexual themes included in the lyrics and visuals so a investigation was done into whether it breached Rule 1.3. When taking this into account Ofcom have to take into account the right the broadcaster have to impact informations and ideas on an audience and that the audience have the right to view them without unnecessary interference. The investigate ended with saying that it did, like many other music videos, breach this rule and it would had to be shown after the watershed and that the video will be investigated farther.
With the fact that the video does contain lyrics and visuals which display s&m content that kids simply would not recognise as normal sexual behaviour, meaning that it may be inappoirate for kids to be made aware of it and may shock them too much. It is also the case that many adults find it inappropriate.
However many people would say that as the channel has no real child audience. The video is only really a over the top fantasy version of the fetish and no real fetish material is used.
It seems that maybe the parents with children viewing this channel or any other music video of this nature need to be more responsible for their own child. Also the fact that other music videos, T.V shows that have similar themes are viewed by children before the watershed.
So, I conclude this by saying that the right decision about it was made. It has inappropriate content that kids would not understand and do not need to be made aware of. Although it is hard for this sort of thing to be edited down it should be done before being shown before the watershed.
Friday, 21 September 2012
AOB 5-Disturibution and Ownership of Music Press
The NME is currenly owned by the music giant IPC Media who also owns magazines such as Horse & Hound and Golf monthly. IPC media was founded in 1959 and now has a very large portfolio selling over 350 million copies a year. The IPC is a company of the Time INC whose parent company is (AOL) Time Warner. It was founded in 1993. As well as the IPC, Time INC publishes 30 America magazine including People, In Style and Life. Time Warner is the second largest multinational media copitation in the world behind Disney. It's headquarters are in Time Warner Centre, New York City.
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
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