The creative media sector has a 'code of practice' which journalists have to abide by because it is to protect employees and organisations. It also protects the public (audience) as you don't want to offend or upset your audience because they are buying your products.
The PCC stands for Press Complaints Commission and are a self-regulatory body.
The advantages of being a self-regulatory body are that they have knowledge of the industry. However, the disadvantages are that it could be bias towards the magazines.They are the regulating body for print media and they investigate the complaints as well as devising the code of practice. Papers and magazines pay for the PCC to stay on.
What do the PCC have to say about Privacy?
1) Everyone is entitled to respect for his or her private and family life.
2) Editors will be expected to justify intrusions into any individual's private life without consent.
3) It is unacceptable to photograph individuals in private places without their consent.
'Public interest' is stuff you should, must, need, or have to know. For example, information about the UK government being involved in a Middle Eastern arms deal would be a public interest story because it's to do with the government and the public have a right to know what's going on.
'Interesting to the public' is stuff that we don't necessarily need to know but want to know. For example, details of an alleged affair that David Beckham had with a former prostitute would be a story that is interesting to the public because it does not affect our lives in any way but we want to know about the gossip.
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