Ofcom 5 months: PCC 5 weeks
By Andrew Grant-Adamson • May 27th, 2007 • Category: Broadcasting, Journalism, Newspapers, magazinesCan separate regulation of the media (statutory Ofcom for for broadcast and the voluntary Press Complaints Commission for print) last in an age of converged media?
Peter Preston, in the Observer, today has no doubt which he prefers. He points out that while the PCC turns round judgments in five weeks, Ofcom has taken five months to produce a 66 page report on Big Brother and racism.
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