Despite these things, the media environment is still very much ripe for more tools to connect online activity with live broadcasted material.
Even after Bang's services were removed from the Sky EPG and from broadcast on the Freeview platform, Bang continued to broadcast material in breach of a direction from Ofcom that it should cease broadcasting immediately, and even told viewers how to circumvent the restrictions by reconfiguring their set top boxes.
Defense lawyers noted that Fox News and CNN had also broadcast material from Al Manar.
Commercial networks, dependent on advertising revenue, rarely broadcast material that could be incredibly challenging and uncomfortable for viewers.
"The ITC programme code requires us not to broadcast material which offends against good taste or is offensive to public feeling," Mr Sunderland added.
Contributors, especially to broadcast material, should be informed of the wider context within which their comments will be placed and – where applicable – be told about who else may be contributing to the same programme or article.
Ask yourself what their motivation is if they are not prepared to go on the record, and whether an improper purpose could taint their reliability as a source (and thus make defending our published or broadcast material more difficult).
We know that Lord Hall is the BBC's editor-in-chief in regard to broadcast material; the Store prefers to speak of "curation" but it is not entirely clear who the curator-in-chief is.
For example, under the Racial and Religious Hatred Act of 2006, British residents convicted of distributing written or broadcast material that is "threatening and intended to stir up religious hatred" can be sent to jail.
But under a law passed by the occupying authorities in June, a news media organization must be licensed, and that license can be revoked if the organization publishes or broadcasts material that incites violence or civil disorder or "advocates alterations to Iraq's borders by violent means".
