Deciding What We Watch Taste, Decency and Media Ethics in the UK and the USA

Name: Deciding What We Watch Taste, Decency and Media Ethics in the UK and the USA
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ISBN: 9780198159377

ISBN-10: 0198159374

ISBN-13: 9780198159377

Edition: 1999

Authors: Colin Shaw

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The recent history of broadcasting on both sides of the Atlantic, characterized by a great increase in the number of services on offer to the public, has been brought about by technological advances and economic pressures. This has inevitably affected traditional forms of content regulation. The book explores the moral basis and history of such regulation as it has until now been applied to major issues of taste and decency. These include the protection of children, obscenity and bad language, offences against religious sensibility, `reality' television, and stereotyping. Deciding What we Watch? considers the different constraints (in the law, cultural customs, and self-regulation)…

Book details

List price: $225.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/10/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 198
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880

Colin Don Shaw is a former broadcasting executive with the BBC and the Independent Broadcasting Authority and is a visiting scholar at Duke University, North Carolina



Definitions



Starting Places



Developing Regulation



Taste and Decency



The Particular Case of Children



Sex: After the 1960s



Language: And the Next Fellow



News and Reality-Programmes



Privacy



In the Name of What?


Bibliography


Index