Sentence examples for media regulatory from inspiring English sources

On Wednesday, the government joined the call: Media companies across the country received notices from the media regulatory authority warning them not to broadcast programs promoting Valentine's Day — which, according to the letter, is "not in conformity to our religious and cultural ethos" and is "perceived as a source of depraving, corrupting and injuring morality of Pakistani youth".

Efforts toward that end accelerated on Wednesday with the approval of a government-backed media regulatory system that the publishers had earlier failed to stop in the courts.

"A media regulatory body anchored by statute cannot be described as voluntary," said Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Last year the state media regulatory authority warned television channels against broadcasting content that encouraged the "humiliation and defamation of dignitaries".

Since August, the Supreme Court has been pressuring the media regulatory authority to define "obscenity" more narrowly in order to better censor offensive content from Pakistani airwaves.

Prescott added that he had drafted a report on what a new media regulatory framework (pdf), which could replace the PCC, could look like, which he hoped Lord Leveson would consider seriously.

Bland believes there is an argument for Ofcom's adding the BBC to its media-regulatory duties.

It originally extended the broadcast media's regulatory regime to print and online outlets, including a statutory right-of-reply clause, regardless of merit.

In a response filed on Jan . 3by News Corp. 's Fox Entertainment Group and Fox Television Stations, General Electric 's NBC and its Spanish-language Telemundo unit, as well as Viacom, the conglomerates said "the FCC should abandon the media ownership regulatory scheme in its entirety".

The AT&T/T-Mobile merger continues to be a much-discussed topic in both media and regulatory circles.

Human Rights Watch documented the partisan application of media and regulatory laws, creating a minefield for media owners and reporters who spoke or wrote about issues that the government deemed politically sensitive or controversial.