Week 21 OFCOM Case Study 2: Woolwich Terrorist attack Lee Rigby murder

Starter: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10484851/Lee-Rigby-murder-trial-footage-of-attack-released-by-court.html 

Questions to show progression:

1. How effective is OFCOM as a regulator?
2. Is it Statutory or Non? 
3. Why has it been set up and what is its job?
4. What does this Case Study tell you about the response to regulation of TV in UK (compared to film?)
5. Did allowing the footage to be broadcast pre-watershed serve any public interest?
6. Why do we need regulation in this Case - what guidelines and rules were breached by the broadcasters?
7. Why did the Camera phone and YouTube complicate regulating UK broadcast media?
8. Were OFCOM justified in it's decision?

How many complaints and why?
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/may/23/woolwich-attack-video-tv-complaints
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/20/lee-rigby-video-bbc-itv-sky-news-michael-debolajo

What is the purpose of the watershed?

http://ask.ofcom.org.uk/help/television/watershed
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/ofcom-investigate-broadcast-of-graphic-lee-rigby-murder-footage-after-receiving-700-complaints-8662183.html

What was OFCOMs decision as the regulator for broadcast TV? What is meant by the public interest?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25624599

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jan/06/itv-bbc-lee-rigby-murder-coverage

What political or social reasons do you think that OFCOM made its decision?

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/29/woolwich-murder-trial-lee-rigby-court

What are some of the arguments or opinions about REGULATION of this Case Study being broadcast?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/may/26/woolwich-footage-grotesque-reaction-london-killing

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/23/woolwich-attack-echo-chamber-mass-hysteria

Case study title and year1 from ctkmedia

Conclusion - look through the recent OFCOM broadcast TV Case studies (revision guide)

http://www.ctklms.com/uploads/5/3/4/2/5342058/ofcom.pptx

How effective is OFCOM as a regulator?

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/about/what-is-ofcom/

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/14/video-on-demand-ofcom-atvod

http://advanced-television.com/2015/04/01/ofcom-reveals-viewers-perceptions-to-vod-regulations/

Plenary Questions to show progression:

1. How effective is OFCOM as a regulator?
2. Is it Statutory or Non? 
3. Why has it been set up and what is its job?
4. What does this Case Study tell you about the response to regulation of TV in UK (compared to film?)
5. Did allowing the footage to be broadcast pre-watershed serve any public interest?
6. Why do we need regulation in this Case - what guidelines and rules were breached by the broadcasters?
7. Why did the Camera phone and YouTube complicate regulating UK broadcast media?
8. Were OFCOM justified in it's decision?