Regulation, Law and ethics. - Mechanism for Media Regulation
Media has become an integral part of the human life in the present era. Be it dissemination of very crucial information to source of entertainment, media plays a very vital role in everyone’s lives. Regulation in literal terms is the set of governing actions. Media Regulation in a general context are the acts or laws that are implemented in order to abide by the objective to achieve a certain goal. Media regulation has always been a debatable issue and has been in continuous discussion. To simplify this the arguments are based on two school of thoughts commonly- one stands for the thought of media freedom where the media should get complete freedom and the other school of thought says that media freedom should not be absolute. Firstly, as we talk of the first school of thought about complete media freedom this will also lead to an extension in the right of free speech. The open space of the internet and the media platforms will also provide opportunities for everyone to expre...