regulation and the 4th estate

 The "Fourth Estate" is a traditional term for the news media viewed as a crucial, unofficial watchdog over the government and powerful institutions, alongside to the three traditional estates (clergy, nobility, commoners) of medieval society. It highlights the media's power to inform the public, influence policy, and hold politicians accountable, acting as a check on the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government in a democracy. 

we need regulation in the media so news companys dont invade peoples privacy such as the worlds news who were hacking peoples phones in oder to retrive stories r the news in there 

messages 

a famous story is a murder case where the worlds news hacked the girls phone as they belived they could be

the hero's who would find her, they deleted messages which gave red herrings to the police making them 

believe she was still alive MILLY DOWLER 

Compounding the agony was the revelation that News of the World journalists had accessed Milly’s voicemail messages on her phone – a fact that earned the anger of the Prime Minister, David Cameron, who dubbed it ‘truly dreadful’. The story was to be one of the most damning aspects of the wide-ranging phone hacking scandal which engulfed media magnate Rupert Murdoch, owner of the News of the World. The newspaper itself was closed in 2011 as a direct result of the furore. from crime investigation+

north korea on the other hand only have 4 newspapers and 4 radios, all covering strictly how great and how powerful the country is, a never enduing cycle of propoganda