Abstract
With the current focus on the practices of the print media by the Leveson Inquiry into press standards, little attention has been given to the pressures on the current system of broadcast media regulation under the Communications Act 2003 and the Broadcasting Code. This article considers the Court of Appeal’s decision in Gaunt, on whether or not the actions of the communications regulator, OFCOM, in finding that radio presenter Jon Gaunt had breached the duty against harmful and offensive broadcasting under rule 2 of the Broadcasting Code, violated his Article 10 ECHR right. Considered in the wider context of broadcast news and current affairs programming in the UK today, the Gaunt case raises issues of whether the current regulatory regime is sufficient to prevent the “Foxification” of the UK news sector, whereby a tabloid style of journalism threatens to predominate.
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