Regulatory Structures And Government Policies

Martin Gilens and Craig Hertzman at Yale University, have conducted a study on the Corporate ownership and news bias through the newspaper coverage of the 1996 Telecommunication Act addressing the claim: “Financial interests of corporate owners lead America’s news bureaus to downplay the significant issues surrounding the growing concentration of ownership of the country’s mass media” (Martin and Hertzman, 2000.)

Regulating a variety of aspects of business and society is an old and often controversial aspect of government, particularly at the national level. Much of what the national government does, or fails to do, has an impact on individual citizens, private corporations and other business enterprises, agricultural producers and marketers, foreign governments, labor unions, and state and local governments.

Fairfax media, originally John Fairfax and Sons, was founded by John Fairfax in 1941 and for over 170 years has grown to become one of Australia’s largest media companies. The company’s operations include the distribution of newspapers, magazines, radio as well as operating digital media throughout Australia and New Zealand. Some notable figures from Fairfax Media’s current Board of Directors include company chairman Roger Corbett, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Greg Hywood and Chief Financial Officer, David Housego. This report provides a situational analysis regarding the current stage the business’s lifecycle and the internal and external influences on the business. This is followed by an

Due to the results of the Leveson inquiry, much has changed for the ways in which the British Press must work within the parameters of Media law. The inquiry has left much of the public untrusting and suspicious of journalism as a practice, and after the publishing of Leveson’s report, it is as though they are just waiting for another slip-up by media institutions.

The United States has slowly conformed to the new ways of the Western policy of democratic socialism in order to achieve equality in the eyes of the law, but with this the necessary regulatory compliance of all citizens must be provided. If all American citizens do agree to abide by the rules implemented by the United States, the freedom that they came here for would be nonexistent, and they would no longer have the ability to truly live the infamous ‘American dream’. The economy is also beginning to move away from the capitalist ways and move toward an ideology of equality among the wealth and incomes of the people, and the only apparent way to achieve

The government has always played a very strong role in the laws of the United States and in the lives of people who live in this country. At times in history, the government has been too strict on its people other times.These leaders have, however, failed to achieve a successful medium between these two treatments. The situation is similar to this one when dealing with most everything that the government has any type of control over. Although there are opposing sides which either argue for strict government regulation of the diets of its people or no government regulation at all, a middle ground should be explored and examined by the government itself regarding this topic. Nutrition in America is a very touchy and sensitive subject to talk

Media was just as ever-changing as the society it was taking place within. During this time, media was just beginning to become a nationwide phenomenon. In May of 1874, the “Imperial Press Law” decreed that there would be freedom of the press. This opened the door not only for more forms of media to be readily available, but also for media to now be interwoven with politics. Newspapers

Institutions that seek grant money through the ACA to fund nurse residency programs will discover many restrictions placed upon the funding. The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), an autonomous accrediting agency assesses educational programs ("CCNE," 2015). CCNE only supports and accredits baccalaureate and post graduate nursing programs, which excludes associate degree nursing programs (Commission, 2015). Through new ACA laws, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) disseminates grant money to those CCNE accredited programs. The guidelines to receive the grant funding states that the recipient must be a new baccalaureate graduate or post graduate nurse. Considering that there are many associate degree nursing

Peter Jennings, a Canadian journalist, once said, “whoever controls the media, controls reality”. It is his belief that the media has the capacity to shift stories and events to suit its own agenda. Furthermore, enough people will accept these deteriorations from the truth without question until it is perceived as actuality. Ultimately, Jennings’ believes it eventually becomes the reality. Those who have control over media are also responsible for determining what the norm is and what constitutes lunacy. These principals are exemplified in Oceania.

Until the 1980s, the control of the media was in the hands of the national government. From then, the control shifted to private outlets and by the 1990’s, there were more than fifty multinational companies who controlled it (“Mass Media”). Today, only about six major companies control the larger fraction of media in America (Williams, Par. 1). Norman Solomon wrote in the New Political Science Journal that most reporters and editors work for just a few huge companies. These journalists and editors are on the payroll for “mega-media institutions”, of which, only about six exist (Solomon 297). How much will the public learn if these companies generally control the output of information?

Where the right to freedom of expression extends to mediums including written or oral communications as well as the media, this right is not absolute. This article assists in assessing the several burdens placed on the media 2013-2014 and its impact on Australia’s status as a democracy placing high value on press autonomy. The article also discusses the restrictions effected by the recent decisions and actions of Australian politicians, judges and government agencies that affect media freedom. These include the issuing of the jailing of journalists, increased national security and surveillance power, coercion of journalists and politicians by public servants and the censorship of public informa¬tion. This assists in expressing the limitations of freedom of expression and the abuse of the power to enforce or invoke freedom of expression within Australia.

The future of public broadcasting in Australia has continued to be very unknown. Since the 1990’s Australia’s public service broadcasters security has been under constant challenge and change (E. Jacka, 2006). The Australian public service broadcasting sector comprises of the radio, television and online services. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which is also known as the ABC, and the Special broadcasting services SBS. Both are funded directly by the federal government. According to Scannell and Cardiff (1991), defined broadcasting as a “public service which would act as a ‘cultural, moral and educative force for the improvement of knowledge, taste and manners”.

It is without a doubt that the Globalisation of the media has increased our access to information about people and events around the world. However, during the process it has also shifted issues on what should or should not be in the public domain due to media ownership led by Western media corporations. The media shape is reconstructing itself, forming a singular global body playing an essential part in our democracy socially, politically, economically and culturally. Due to this, the effects of globalisation towards Journalism have become very debatable to whether it is benefiting the practice of journalism or hindering it. During the course of this essay, it will explore the affect globalisation has on the media (especially journalism), the affect of media ownership and how new technologies have influenced journalism.

There are various government structures in organizations although they are different from one branch of the government to the other. The structures help the government manage its economy efficiently. In the economy a too big to fail firm (TBTF) exists and it is defined as one that its complexity, size, critical functions, and interconnections are in the sense that in case the firm goes into liquidation unexpectedly, the rest of the economy and financial system will face severe consequences. The government provides support to TBTF companies not because they favor them but because they recognize implications for an advanced economy of allowing a disorderly failure outweighs the cost of avoiding the failure. Helping the TBTF firms enable the economy to realize high revenue. Various activities are to prevent their failure. They include providing credit, facilitating a merger, or injecting the capital of the government. The paper addresses the structures of the administration and the concept of too big to fail in financial and non-financial institutions plus the ethics involved with the theory.

In a contemporary society, the role of journalism is a varied one that covers many different aspects of people’s lives. As more and more outlets spring up around the world, many more stories are able to be covered by different outlets, and this means that journalism takes on a more and more important role in a contemporary society. Much of our lives centre on political and social happenings, and journalistic outlets are the public’s way of finding all the information on these event. Journalism also provides us with a way of finding out which of these stories are important and deserve our attention, and which stories can be ignored. The important role of journalism can be well observed in the recent coverage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) in both New Zealand and around the world. This is a ground breaking economic deal, and holds a great deal of importance for the 800 million citizens of the countries involved, as well as the rest of the world. With worldwide coverage of this deal, it is inevitable that different types of reporting occurs, and that different outlets will provide different accounts. With so many different journalism outlets around the world and locally, many have to have a way of standing out from the crowd. This means that some extremely different coverage of very similar stories can occur. However it can also simply be down to different ownership, differing political views, and different socio-economic environments. Two outlets with