Abstract
The broadcasting services in the United Kingdom have always been subject to controls and restraints additional to those which they share with other forms of public communication. From the early days of radio, well before the term ‘mass media’ became current jargon, it was accepted that for a public message system so widespread, so accessible and potentially therefore so influential, something more was needed beyond the limitations imposed by the laws governing libel and obscenity, contempt of court and national security.
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Independent Broadcasting Authority Act 1973 Section 2.
IBA Annual Report and Accounts 1974–75 p. 11.
Appendix to IBA Paper 283(77).
IBA Paper 172(72).
IBA Paper 2(73).
IBA Minutes 305(73).
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IBA Paper 231(80).
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Ibid. Section 4(1) (f).
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Letter to the author dated 16 November 1987.
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H of L 19 May 1977 Col. 961.
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See Chapter 8.
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Potter, J. (1989). Editorial Control or Censorship. In: Independent Television in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06335-2_7
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