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How and Why do Governments seek to Regulate the Realm of Broadcast Television. In order to try and answer the question of why and how governments seek to regulate the realm of broadcast television we must look at what motivates various governments and why their particular ideologies may come into conflict with the mass media. What compels them to introduce regulation in one form or another? We can then look at how they go about regulation. First of all let us begin by looking at why governments may want to control the realm of broadcast television. This may have something to do with a government's ideology and the discourses at play within a particular political party at any given time. The first Director General of the BBC Sir John Reith argued that public service broadcasting had a duty to educate and reform but this became a cultural strategy that imposed a blinkered...

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