ABSTRACT
Why do we have regulation? As we will see, the regulation of media that we can observe in practice is almost always a manifestation of policies decided upon by governments, and these in turn are based upon political or moral philosophies about the role of various media in society. For this reason we need to relate issues of regulation directly to the issues of political economy that we dealt with in the previous chapter, but also to questions about the nature of the society we believe we should live in, and our view of the power of media.
