March 2016
Channel 4 is on the hunt for couples and singles to be set up in a THREESOME
Channel 4 will launch a new dating series in which people are set up for threesomes. Each episode will be between three and 10 minutes long and ‘look at what it’s like dating as a three’, a spokeswoman from the channel told MailOnline. Inspiration behind the new series is, she said, the increase of apps people are using to find a people willing to engage in a threesome.
Mediawatch UK, which campaigns for socially responsible broadcasting said: ‘It’s a sad day that shows like this now pass for popular entertainment on UK television - especially so as Channel 4 has a public service remit intended to encourage creativity and diversity. Titillation and controversy for the sake of it don’t quite fit that remit.’
The group, which concerns itself with the lack of watershed online, added that: ‘We’re very concerned about online on-demand television because the age verification procedures put in place by providers are mostly inadequate - it doesn’t take a lot to simply click yes when a pop-up asks if you’re an adult. Television channels have a real responsibility to make sure that children aren’t able to access harmful content online.’
MailOnline 30/3/2016
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Children aged just SEVEN are sexting: Half of teachers have caught pupils exchanging explicit pictures and videos in class
Children as young as seven are sexting in class, it has emerged. More than half of teachers say they have caught pupils exchanging explicit pictures, messages and videos.
A survey by the NASUWT union found children aged at least 14 were the biggest culprits, but some staff claimed much younger pupils were also involved. Examples included children taking pictures of their genitals or filming themselves carrying out sex acts and sharing them.
One of the 1,300 teachers surveyed told how a vulnerable girl was befriended on social media by other pupils, who encouraged her to send sexual images of herself, which were then distributed around the school.
MailOnline 25/3/2016
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Sexting among under-16s skyrocketing, says Labour
Sexting among young people is “skyrocketing” but the government is “refusing to protect the smartphone generation”, says Labour. The party is committed to compulsory age-appropriate sex education in all of England’s schools, shadow education secretary Lucy Powell has announced.
BBC News Online 22/3/2016
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Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway hit by string of complaints
Television watchdog Ofcom has received a string of complaints from viewers about the Saturday night entertainment show hosted by Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly. One episode in February received as many as 56 complaints.
The Daily Mail 22/3/2016
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YouTube channel Trollstation ‘shocked’ by jail term
YouTube channel Trollstation has vowed to continue making films despite a team member being jailed for nine months. The London-based channel, with 684,000 subscribers, has built a reputation for filming staged pranks around the city.
BBC News Online 22/3/2016
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‘We are asking the United Nations to recognize pornography and prostitution as forms of torture’
“The experiences of physical, mental, and verbal abuse commonly experienced in both pornography and prostitution are consistent with torture and should be addressed accordingly. This is why the National Center on Sexual Exploitation submitted two important reports to help inform the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Méndez, as he formulates a thematic report on gender perspectives on torture.”
endsexualexploitation.org 22/3/2016
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Jeremy Kyle Show swear word escapes censure by Ofcom
ITV has escaped censure from Ofcom for broadcasting an uncensored swear word on The Jeremy Kyle Show that was said in a Scottish accent. ITV admitted the speaker’s accent had meant the word had not been “understood” prior to broadcast. It apologised for any offence caused and said it had received no complaints.
BBCOnline 21/3/2016
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My boyfriend is addicted to porn but doesn’t want sex
It’s a state of affairs that we really need to investigate further. We spend ever-increasing time online, conducting our working lives, social lives, family lives and even our darkest fantasies via our phones and tablets, and in the process we’re becoming increasing disconnected from tangible experiences.
Guardian 20/3/2016
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SXSW panel explores virtual reality porn: ‘more eye contact and dirty talk’
As an experience, it was more bizarre than erotic, but VR porn is gaining a highly engaged following of fans. Now 2D porn is not enough – they want to feel as they are in an imaginary world having sex with fantasy women.
Guardian 18/3/2016
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Petition to protect BBC independence signed by 140,000 people in four days
More than 140,000 people have signed a petition calling on the culture secretary, John Whittingdale, to protect the independence of the BBC, as the government faces a backlash in the Lords against its plans for the corporation.
mediaGuardian 18/3/2016
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Anorexia and the internet is destroying childhood
Mail columnist Sarah Vine says that “Technology is killing childhood — with terrifying speed,” thanks to the immense pressure that young people find themselves under through social networking sites.
Daily Mail 16/3/2016
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‘TV needs working-class writers to counter Downton Abbey effect’
One of the stars of BBC2’s hit police drama Line of Duty has called for more working-class writers to combat the “Downton Abbey effect” on television. Daniel Mays, who also starred in ITV’s Mrs Biggs and BBC1’s Ashes to Ashes, and as Private Walker in the new film version of Dad’s Army, said the industry was awash with actors and writers educated at public school.
mediaGuardian 14/3/2016
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Amazon delivering knives without age checks, Guardian investigation finds
Amazon is selling age-restricted folding knives, similar to one used by the 16-year-old killer of schoolboy Bailey Gwynne, without checking they are safely delivered to adults, a Guardian investigation has found.
Guardian 15/3/2016
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Junk food ads face online ban in UK
Advertising junk food could soon be banned from children’s content streamed online, according to the UK’s advertising watchdog. Ads for foods considered unhealthy are already banned on children’s television, but not online. The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP), which sets the rules for advertisers in the UK, will soon launch a public consultation on the issue.
A ban could affect content on services such as YouTube and ITV Hub. In 2007, the broadcasting regulator Ofcom introduced strict rules banning the advertising of food high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) during television programmes likely to appeal to under-16s. Those rules are enforced by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which also regulates “non-broadcast” ads such as print, billboards and online streaming.
BBCOnline 14/3/2016
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£21m French-made series has the most graphic sex scenes ever on British TV
It’s the new BBC blockbuster that cost £21 million to make – but it seems not a lot of that was spent by the costume department. Versailles is described by the Corporation as ‘a delicious treat’ for viewers, but MPs and family rights campaigners are outraged by its nudity and graphic sex scenes, and have described it as ‘porn dressed up in a cravat and tights’.
The lavish French-made series – which depicts the decadent and debauched life of France’s Sun King, Louis XIV – is set to be the most sexually graphic costume drama ever shown on British TV. Sue Deeks, BBC head of programme acquisition, said: ‘Versailles will be a delicious treat for BBC2 viewers.’
Sam Burnett, of Mediawatch UK, said: ‘Dressing up pornography and violence in a cravat and tights doesn’t make it cultural.’
MailOnSunday 13/3/2016
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Pupils from Tarporley High took on the seven day digital detox
A lot of us have become reliant on digital technology for entertainment and communication. We challenged over 1,000 pupils at Tarporley High School to see if they could complete a seven day digital detox. Here’s how they got on…
BBCOnline 12/3/2016
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BBC’s Iain Lee ‘broke rules’ by attacking guest’s anti-gay views
A BBC radio presenter who labelled anti-gay views as bigotry was in serious breach of the corporation’s editorial guidelines, the BBC Trust has ruled.
MediaGuardian 8/3/2016
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Skype ditches support for smart TVs
Skype has announced that it is ending support for its smart TV software. The Microsoft-owned chat app said that the move reflected the public preference for using mobile devices to make video calls from the living room, despite the size advantage TVs offered.
BBCOnline 8/3/2016
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Ten of the best music apps for kids
A range of developers have been finding inventive ways for children to explore creative music-making – or the world of music more generally – on tablets and smartphones.
Guardian 8/3/2016
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Anonymous claims Twitter is shutting accounts which target the IS group
Online activists targeting so-called Islamic State on social media say Twitter has suspended accounts which were being used to harass the terrorist group. An Anonymous hacker made the claim after Twitter closed 125,000 accounts. It said they were blocked for “threatening or promoting terrorist acts, primarily related to ISIS”.
BBC Newsbeat 7/3/2016
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Kidnapped by a paedophile I met online
At that time the internet was really just entering the home and my parents had thought that they had given my brother and me this wonderful gift. They had talked to me about “stranger danger” but there is a difference between a stranger you meet on the street and the stranger you meet online. People online may be strangers at first, but then you learn about them, and soon they seem like friends.
BBCOnline 7/3/2016
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Wilshaw warns teachers against reality TV school shows
Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has warned head teachers they should refuse to take part in television reality shows. Speaking to the ASCL head teachers’ conference, he says such programmes give a “distorted” impression of modern state schools. Sir Michael said such shows “provide great TV but little reality”. “All they do is reinforce the caricatures of comprehensive schools,” said the Ofsted boss.
“They inevitably focus on the sensational, at the cost of presenting a balanced picture of what goes on in our schools,” Sir Michael told head teachers at their annual conference in Birmingham. “The spotlight always falls on the lippy kid and the newly qualified teacher in trouble and gives a distorted view of our state system.
“All they do is reinforce the caricatures of comprehensive schools promoted by those who don’t understand them, would like to get rid of them and return to selection.”
BBC Online 4/3/2016
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Is closing the BBC iPlayer loophole the first step towards subscriptions?
What is the difference between the BBC and Sky? Leaving the weighty issues of politics and ownership to one side, the big difference really is that one is paid for by a licence fee and the other via subscription. But when we all start entering access codes and passwords to watch BBC1 on the iPlayer will we become subscribers to the BBC? Is that what the culture secretary expected when he said he would rush through legislation to close the loophole?
MediaGuardian 3/3/2016
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Is ‘porn addiction’ a real thing?
BBC Trending investigates whether porn addiction is a real thing, following a series of popular video posts by actor Terry Crews on his struggle with pornography
BBC News Online, 1/3/2016
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American girls – how social media is disrupting the lives of teenagers
“No matter how various theorists try to minimize and even glamorize girls’ participation in social-media culture, it is girls who experience the reality of its troubling effects” – Nancy Jo Sales writes for Time magazine on the effects of social media on young girls in the USA.
Time magazine, 1/3/2016
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Just ‘Kiddle’ it
An American company has launched a new search engine for kids called ‘Kiddle’, which uses a mixture of Google settings and human administrators to try and create safe search results for children to use
The Daily Mail, 1/3/2016
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