Media systems

The UK's primary system is Social Responsibility and its secondary one is Libertarian. It is more Social Responsibility oriented than Libertarian because they have a strong public broadcasting system and the biggest media company in the UK ( the BBC) is funded by the government. The government makes sure the main focus of the television channels is to provide social responsibilty with programs of public importance.It is Libertarian however because a lot of their print media is owned privately. Print journalism in London is much more entertainment based because being privately owned the main focus is on money and revenue.


I think Canada has the same two systems as the UK. They have government funded stations with national quotas about how much national content they need to broadcast.
Canada also has a private sector of owning media so that's how they get Libertarian as their second system.


I would say Japan is hard to figure out because the government has no laws interfering with its media however they have a club that only grants access to journalists who are in that club. They are called Kishas, and that is how the government creates relationships with the media and creates favortism. Because of this I would say it is Developmental. But they are also Libertarian first off because they can put anything they want on air from news to entertainment and pretty much the whole country has access.

Private Matters

I agree with the courts ruling in the case presented in this article. Hacking into voicemails to get private information is ethically wrong! I just don't have respect for gossip tabloid papers anyways so I am biased. It's kind of like the paparazzi in L.A. Just leave these people alone! I think it's sad that people make careers and revolve their life around publishing people's "dirt." Even though there is a market for this type of journalism, the journalists still need to abide by journalistic codes of ethics. So this case with the Royal family where the journalist was jailed for hacking into their voicemails-I don't think it was wrong for him to be jailed. This whole debate between balancing privacy rights with the freedom of the press is a difficult one. On one hand, people who choose to live their lives in the public limelight know that media attention is something that comes with the lifestyle they choose to live. But I think the issue is when journalists go too far (mostly tabloid ones) and everything published is all about gossip.