Censorship is the suppression of any harmfull of offensive material in t.v or film such as swearing, violence and pornographic material. These things usualy become censored because the BBFC or the company airing the program deem it to be offensive or possibly harmfull to a younger audience.
The freedom of information act is the law which alows us to request for any informtion from any government body or authority. In the media this has been used many times for journalists to get some pretty good scoops
such as Prince charles writing to ministers and "meddling in politics" http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/16/prince-charles-letters-to-ministers
Consumer choice is basically us (the consumers) controlling the market without realising, so if the playstation 3 and xbox 360 came out at the same time, and more of us bought the 360 advertising of that product would go up a lot more, which i believe did actually happen. Another example of this is the turn from analog to digital t.v, after a certain amount of people made the change it became a mandatory thing to do, after 24th october 2012 all analog channels will be shut down, now i can see why they would do this but at the same time i think people should be able to chose whether or not they want digital, although i dont know of anyone who doesnt have/want digital, choice should always be an option.
Taste and Decency in the media is basically what it says. What some people may find funny such as the banned condom commercial where the child is screaming about sweets and then it says "should have warn a condom" other people may find offensive, think it was in bad taste and indecent. Personally I don't think that advert was that bad and banning it was a little over the top, but obvioulsy enough people complained it had to go.
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