analysis of a text on regulation

This article seeks to explain media regulation and offer several existing views on it from people who are in the industry and those who've theorised on it. the point it starts off with is the way the press was regulated in the UK. In the UK it used to be that the press regulated themselves with occassional public intervention through the PCC (press complaints commission), this system is now being reformed in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal and the leveson enquiry. however the aftermath of these events will not abolish a free press. A free press is an important feature of a democracy, especially when comparing your own country to regimes like those in North Korea and Iran. This means that instead of directly controlling the press a new stronger governing body will have to be set up.