{"id":364,"date":"2007-03-22T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2007-03-22T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T19:11:00","slug":"ofcoms-psb-report-signifying-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/03\/ofcoms-psb-report-signifying-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom&#8217;s PSB report &#8211; signifying nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">I<\/span>n the crazy mental world I inhabit, I actually like <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">media regulation<\/span>. UK TV, excepting the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">BBC<\/span>, is regulated by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ofcom<\/span>. You can read their annual report on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">public service broadcasting<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/tv\/psb_review\/annrep\/psb07\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report is what a regulator&#8217;s report that didn&#8217;t want to regulate would look like. In this parallel world of non-regulation, this is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">a non-regulators report<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>In non-regulation there are non-rules &#8211; a series of banal statements, which instead of being enforced are endlessly repeated. The result of these <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">platitudinous plebiscites<\/span> is enough non-data and non-information to provide food for non-thought. By the time you&#8217;ve waded through it you will be dumber than when you started.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, there are lots of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">little graphs<\/span> that you can grab for presentations &#8211; God bless chartjunk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the crazy mental world I inhabit, I actually like media regulation. UK TV, excepting the BBC, is regulated by Ofcom. You can read their annual report on public service broadcasting here. The report is what a regulator&#8217;s report that didn&#8217;t want to regulate would look like. In this parallel world of non-regulation, this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,78],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-tv","tag-uk-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}