Task 1C

Legal, moral and ethical issues.

There may be a countless amount of legal, moral and ethical issues within my article if my target audience do not think the content in it is suitable. I will analyse each of these problems thoroughly to make sure i do not offend my audience in any form. I will make sure that my article is not offensive and bias towards dancers. Before i intend on copying some quotes from other articles based on dancers i shall follow the copyright legislation. I will also have the copyright rule against my article making sure others do not go against this on my article by using my article without permission. I shall have a signature at the end of my article to let them know that the article was written and published by me. I will make sure I don’t offend anyone's gender, race, disability. I will avoid to use anyone's trademarks as it may cause more copyright problems from other businesses. The accuracy of my article must make sure that they don’t mislead my audience. They must also make sure that they don’t alter or change any facts as this will undermine the audience's trust in the content. My article will not include harm and offense TV journalists have a responsibility to protect children and young people from unsuitable content as well as the rights of freedom of expression and freedom to receive information. I will also make sure I include simple ethics such as being truthful and not biased. I will not talk about a dancers privacy without permission. I will not publish a false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation.

Ofcom is the UK’s communications regulator. Ofcom has a statutory duty to take into account in its decisions the views and interests of those who live in different parts of the UK. Our operations in the nations are led by a senior Director in Glasgow, Cardiff, Belfast and London. Our national offices can draw on the full resources of the whole organisation to tackle issues that affect one part of the UK. Conversely, those operations ensure that the views, needs and special circumstances of the nations receive Ofcom's attention. Ofcom may be able to help you complain about, or report, issues relating to phone and postal services, and TV or radio programmes. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the UK’s independent regulator of advertising across all media. We apply the Advertising Codes, which are written by the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP). With any complaint the ASA receives, our focus is on providing a proportionate and fair process for all involved. We don’t play a numbers game – just one complaint can prompt us to take action if there appears to be a problem under the advertising rules. We take all complaints seriously but we look at whether or not the rules have been broken rather than simply basing our decisions on the number of complaints an ad might prompt. We accept complaints from both the public and the industry. We protect the anonymity of members of the public who lodge complaints with us unless there is a good reason to reveal their details and we have their permission to do so (e.g. they want their name taken off a mailing list). If a complainant is someone acting in an official capacity, for instance they represent a competitor of the advertiser they’re complaining about, we will require them to be named.

The PPC is a comprehensive database housing information on complaints investigated by the Press Complaints Commission from 1996 to 2014. Adjudicated The Commission can elect formally to adjudicate on any unresolved complaint. This means that the Commission issues a ruling on the substance of the complaint, which is published on this website. If the Commission finds an outstanding breach of the Code, it will uphold the complaint against the publication. The publication will then have to publish the Commission's ruling in full on its pages, with a headline reference to the PCC and with due prominence. If the Commission finds no outstanding breach of the Code, the complaint will be recorded as not upheld. Resolved A complaint is deemed to be resolved when the PCC has been able to negotiate a resolution with the publication concerned that is satisfactory to the complainant. Some of the ways of achieving this are: the publication of a correction or an apology; a follow-up piece or letter from the complainant; a private letter of apology from the editor; an undertaking as to future conduct by the newspaper; or the annotation of the publication's records to ensure that the error is not repeated.