Media Jobs Task 4

the media industry is always trying to adjust its paramaters to make everything suitable and appropreate. for example the watershed, which is the name for a set time (after 9pm) in which television can start to show programmes with swaering or explicit content in without leagealy being sued. also in newspapers only so much swaring and nudity etc is allowed for certain papers, it has always been that there is a topless woman on page 3 of a lot of common newspapers.

the freedom of information act was brought in 2000 which creates a public "right of access" to information held by public authorities. If you are a public authority you have a legal obligation to provide information through an approved publication scheme and in response to requests. there was recently a lot of speculation on what the government is up to whether it was what they were spending money on plus there was speculation as too the elected members of parliment (MP's) spending tax payers money on unnessasariy things. the freedom of information act gives the media and therefore the public more insight into current government affarires and also states that they have the right to know what goes on in there goverment and public authorities. people can use the act to find out about a problem facing your community to see how effective a policy has been, to find out about the authorities spending and to genrally see if an authority is doing what it says it is. this means the media can post news or shows about used to be sectret government issues which gives the public a lot more control.

Media censorship has been greatly exercised in our day and age, because of its highly revealing content that can infuriate those it may offend, or influence others by its immoral message. There is always some kind of censorship involved, especially in countries where it is strictly prohibited by the government or concerned agencies, that strive to keep viewing-audiences away from such material. Children and young adults are those that are greatly affected by the media, and censorship is something that needs to be regularized before this audience.