The document discusses media regulation in the United Kingdom. It provides context that historically, the print media was self-regulated with no statutory oversight body. In the 1980s, public complaints about excesses in the British press led the government to establish a public inquiry into press regulation. This inquiry recommended establishing a new voluntary self-regulatory body, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), to set standards for journalism, receive complaints, and issue rulings. The PCC began operating in 1991 and continues to handle complaints and provide guidelines for newspaper, magazine and website content in the UK.

1. media; regulation in the united kingdomthe print
media is essentially self-regulating. There was no
statutory Press Council and no statutory complaints
body and no requirement. Also the journalists be
registered or belong to any particular association.
1980s
1980’s there were a number of public complaints about perceived
excesses in the British press and the British Government responded by
setting up a public enquiry into press regulation which reported in 1990. The
enquiry recommended the establishment of a new voluntary body to regulate
the press. (to replace an existing body widely seen as discredited and
ineffective) which would be given a limited time to prove its efficacy. order to
avoid the creation of a statutory
council, a committee of editors of various press organs met and set up the
Press Complaints Commission in early 1991.

2. (the Press
Complaints Commission)
The PCC is an independent self-regulatory body which deals with complaints about
the editorial content of newspapers and magazines (and their websites). We keep
industry standards high by training journalists and editors, and work pro-actively
behind the scenes to prevent harassment and media intrusion. We can provide
pre-publication advice to journalists and the public and have published advice on
dealing with media attention after a death.
the PCC were to set high standards for the
practice of press journalism, to disseminate and promote those standards,
including through the training of journalists, to receive complaints against
press organs and adjudicate on them.
The PCC began receiving complaints and issuing guidelines on specific
matters almost immediately and has continued to do so to the present day.

3. The PCC deals with all editorially-controlled material in
UK newspapers and magazines (and their
websites) issues a ruling on the substance of the
complaint.
. This edition of Kerrang complaints are the shocking
pictures they used and the words they used during the
interview such as f word and the c word. And also the
complaints were received about Kerrang!'s sudden
emphasis on emo and metalcore music.
In the magazine that I have been analysing has got a
lot of bad language. For example In the article there is
swearing such as F***, C****, w**** there is also
discussing about drugs , prostitution. There is no age
rating on the magazine and it seen as an issue of the
bad language.