Should we regulate television programmes?

No one will deny the fact that there is a hell of a lot of rubbish being shown on the 52000 television channels which are available to watch in Britain today.

Those running these stations have to produce endless programmes to ensure that they get the audience and they more often than not produce stuff with low quality and inferior content. They are after all only interested in the ratings and making money from potential advertisers.

There are programmes that are so appalling and bad that they should definitely not be on telly. Total rubbish for example like the Jeremy Kyle 'show' where people are made to come on and face humiliation and subjected to abuse by people like JK who is not a qualified counsellor.

So should we regulate what we watch? The clear answer to that is an absolute no because we live in a free and democratic society where no one or anything else matters apart from the citizen and that same citizen has the right to expose themselves to absolute rubbish if she/he so chooses. So the solution is to set up some independent body which would then award programmes ratings so for example the Jeremy Kyle 'show' will get junk status etc people will then have the chance to consider whether they wish to expose themselves to that.