The document discusses the murder of Scott Amedure, who was killed by Jonathan Schmitz three days after they both appeared on The Jenny Jones Show in 1995. Schmitz was found guilty of second degree murder and sentenced to 25-50 years in prison. In 1999, Amedure's family sued The Jenny Jones Show, its production company, and distributor for negligent and irresponsible tactics that led to Amedure's death. The jury awarded the family $25 million, finding the show intentionally created an explosive situation without concern for consequences.

2. Watch the following extract: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EvUzzbzFNc
 The media (the
network that produces
the show, the
distributor)?
 Jenny Jones?
 The perpetrator?

3. Schmitz was found guilty of second degree murder in 1996 and
sentenced to 25–50 years in prison.
In 1999, the Amedure family (Victim) sued The Jenny Jones
Show, Telepictures, and Warner Bros. for the ambush tactics
and their negligent role that led to Amedure's death.
In May, the jury awarded the Amedures $25 million.
The jury found that the Jenny Jones Show was:
• Irresponsible
• Negligent
• Intentionally created an explosive situation without due
concern for the possible consequences.
Time Warner's defence attorney later claimed the verdict
would cause a chilling effect on the industry.

5. 0 Regulation is a kind of control placed on organisations within thousands of
different industries (Specifically in the UK).
0 Most regulators carry out their duties in order to protect or avoid/prevent harm
from being done to the most vulnerable members of our society.
0 Organisations and industries maybe independent or government run/owned,
and must abide by the law.
TASK:
As students, you will have experienced school inspections by OFSTED.
 What was your experience of OFSTED?
 Do you think it made any difference to the quality of your education at school?
 Is it a good thing? If so why?
 What other industries in our society are regulated? Why?

7. 0 1) To ensure that the content of TV programmes or adverts is
appropriate for the viewer.
0 2) To Ensure that powerful media companies do not abuse their
power.
0 3) The media can be seen as very influential (Often for Children)
which could be seen as dangerous.
0 4) Criminals often state that their actions are the fault of a film,
music video or computer game – this is often tackled in court.
0 The regulation that exists today is a lot softer than the regulation of
the past because the government wants the media to make efforts to
be responsible in what they do and how they do it. However, following
the phone hacking scandal of 2011/12, we expect future regulation to
become stricter.
In your exam, you need to focus on regulation of the UK Media. The
UK media needs to be regulated for many different reasons:

9. There are two types of regulation:
Pro-ac-tive & Re-ac-tive
0 Pro-ac-tive regulation refers to
organisations that are set up to pre-
regulate the media before it
becomes public access.
0 Re-ac-tive regulation refers to
organisations that responded to
regulatory situations that are
already made public, and are
highlighted through raised concerns.

11. 0 As well as proactive and reactive forms of regulation, there are two further types:
0 Statutory regulation means that the regulatory body has been set up by an act of parliament, because
it is considered to be in the best interests of the public.
0 For example, school inspections carried out by Ofsted are a form of statutory regulation.
0 Ofcom are a statutory regulator, meaning that in order for it to be created in 2003, a long process had
to take place where the Houses of Parliament discussed the regulation area and whether the
regulators that existed in the 1990’s could continue to work effectively in the next 10-15 years. Once
this had been debated, a discussion paper is written, checked, and questions raised. After this, the
document is amended, and debated more, then finally the Queen agrees the act, and it becomes law.
0 Self regulation means that an industry which doesn’t want the government to interfere with the way
in which it operates, sets up a system where people from inside the industry regulate each other.
0 It is the process whereby an organization is asked to monitor its own adherence to legal, ethical, or
safety standards, rather than have an outside, independent agency such as a governmental entity
monitor and enforce those standards.
0 A criticism of self regulation is that there can be a lack of objectivity, as was the case with the PCC’s
investigation of the phone hacking scandal which took place 2003 -2010. The general public only
found out about how widespread phone hacking was during the Leveson Enquiry.
Statutory - Regulation
Self - Regulation

13. Statutory Regulated – Reactive Regulation

14. OFCOM receives complaints from X Factor viewers
0This is Zoe Alexander. She Auditioned for Xfactor
to discover her own identity.
0Think carefully. Why do you feel OFCOM received
Complaints about her audition?
0What was wrong?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjQwLOA-hBs

15. ANGRY X FACTOR REJECT FAILS WITH OFCOM COMPLAINT AGAINST SHOW
0 A Pink tribute act who lashed out after she failed to get
through to the next round of the X Factor has lost her
complaint against the show.
0 TV watchdog Ofcom said that judge Gary Barlow
appeared to tell a member of the production team "we
needed one of those" in untransmitted footage after Zoe
Alexander's outburst.
0 The production team member, who had approached the
judges to talk about what had happened, replied "we got
one".
0 The TV regulator said that the "exchange suggested to
Ofcom that it was possible that some of those involved
with the production may have thought it was useful to the
narrative and drama of the programme to have an
incident of this nature.“
0 But it rejected Miss Alexander's complaints about the
way she was presented in the ITV show, adding: "In
Ofcom's view the programme showed a slightly edited,
but accurate, version of what happened."

16. 1) To ensure that the content of TV programmes or adverts
is appropriate for the viewer
Guess which advert was:
1) Banned After Complaints
2) Shown after 9pm
3) Did Not Make it to TV?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUxpct269Ko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSPNfFN-e1s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnL-7x4n4d8

17. Self-Regulation – Reactive Regulation

18. 2) To Ensure that powerful media companies do
not abuse their power
Why have I chose this image?

19. Self-Regulated – Reactive Regulation

20. What is controversial?

21. What is controversial?

22. Self-Regulated – Proactive Regulation

23. Self Regulation (Statutory Elements) - Proactive Regulation

24. Round up Quiz
The BIG 5
0 What is regulation?
0 Give me ONE reason for regulating the media
0 What is self regulation?
0 What is the different between a pro-active and re-active
regulation body?
0 Is the BBFC a pro-active or re-active regulatory body?