Mediaregulation.co.uk is a blog about, well, media regulation in the UK.
My area of particular expertise is broadcasting regulation, particularly radio, so there will probably be a certain focus on that. However, I aim to cover print media, online, advertising, film and games as well.
I hope to be informative, sometimes provocative, occasionally irreverent. I am independent of any regulator, industry player or political interest, so the views you get are mine alone – and you should certainly not assume they are shared by any of my consultancy clients, past or present, or any past employer.
Comments
You are welcome to comment on any blog posting.
Comments are moderated, and so will not appear until I have read them and approved them for publication. You are welcome to disagree with me – strongly and forcefully if you wish – but I won’t publish any comment that is abusive of me or anyone else, nor one that is likely to cause widespread offence (so watch your language).
I will only comment myself, or respond to other comments, if it is to correct an error that I had made in a blog posting or an earlier comment. It’s not that I want to avoid debate, it’s just that I don’t have time for one.
Legal-
I am not a lawyer. Although I may discuss legal issues in this blog, nothing in the blog should be considered to be legal advice or guidance. Nor should anything in this blog be relied upon as definitively accurate, authoritative or truthful, and I accept no liability should you so rely on this blog and suffer adverse consequences as a result.
Nothing in this blog should be interpreted as investment advice, a financial recommendation, or any kind of comment on the future performance of any company.
Sometimes I am sarcastic and it is hard to tell.
Opinions expressed in this blog are intended to be in the spirit of fair comment. If I make a factual statement that you believe to be incorrect, please let me know so that I can correct it. If you feel that an opinion expressed about you in this blog is false, unfair, or might adversely affect your reputation, please contact me. Where this is so, I will happily apologise and issue a retraction or publish a correction, as appropriate.
Do not ask me for the details of my lawyer – I don’t have one. Contacting me directly is cheaper than suing me and, since I have no money, less futile as well.
This blog is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-
Commercial media or organisations may reproduce an extract of a blog posting without seeking further permission from me. However, reproduction in any form of a whole blog posting or more will require additional permission and may require payment.
Where I use other people’s work – principally in the form of extracts from blogs and media articles – I intend to do so in the spirit of fair use. If you are the copyright owner and you wish me to stop using your work in this way, or to seek permission before I do so, please contact me and I will be happy to oblige.
Full disclosure
In the interests of full disclosure, readers of this blog may wish to be aware that my wife is an employee (but not a senior manager or board member) of Ofcom. She is not, nor will she ever be, a source of information for the blog on Ofcom or any other matter covered by the blog; nor will she ever provide, or be asked to provide, access to any Ofcom documents, staff, premises, IT systems or other asset of any kind. The opinions in this blog are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect those of my wife, nor are they necessarily influenced by her.