Press Examples

Christopher jefferies - arrested in Bristol on suspicion of murdering his tenant Joanna Yeates just after 2010 new years going into 2011.

• 3 days following his arrest press monstered by the press.

• Even when Joanna Yeates’s grieving boyfriend, Greg Reardon, lent his support to Jefferies and challenged the morality of the press
• He was ‘weird’, ‘creepy’, ‘lewd’, ‘a loner’ and ‘obsessed by death’, according to the Sun. 
• For the Daily Mirror he was a gay, dirty, eccentric peeping Tom and a friend of paedophiles.
• The daily mail said he had deserted his dying mother.
• Jefferies has said that his arrest and his treatment in the press left him feeling that his real identity had been torn away and another entirely false one foisted upon him
• He said: ‘I don’t think it would be too strong a word to say that it was a kind of rape that had taken place.
• Jefferies sued. The result, again, was a collective apology in court, this time by the Sun, the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror, the Daily Record, the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, the Daily Star and the Scotsman, and an admission that the published allegations had been entirely untrue.
• The damages were reported to have been around £500,000. The Mirror and the Sun were later also prosecuted by the attorney general under the Contempt of Court Act and fined £68,000 between them.

Rachel nickell - a 23-year model from Tooting, south-west London, is stabbed 49 times in a frenzied daylight attack on Wimbledon Common.

• Her two-year-old son, Alex, was clinging to her, covered in her blood and asking his mother to wake up.

• 12 August 1992 14 men arrested in suspicion.

How video games are regulated

The GRA - the games rating authority rate the game according to the level of violence in the game.

Video games are rated by a 3 stage process, questionaire, examination, game examination.

PEGI- European classification group, come up with the certificates. (Not legally enforceable in all countries).

2012 - PEGI ratings become legally enforceable for people buying games.

It is different from the regulation of other industries such as the press as the press does not have any age rating and the games do. According to what age rating the game has been classified under, it determines the amount of violence and abusive language they're allowed.