فصلنامه علوم خبری
پیاپی 7 (پاییز 1392)

Infotainment has called to specific items, which have news as well as interesting ingredients such as irony, criticism, explanation, etc. The goal of infotainment is increasing popularity among audiences. They would like to enjoy as well as learn because of pressure of daily life. The importance of entertainment in newspapers has played significant role in media. This history of infotainment has came back to revolutionary newspaper era. In that time, newspaper had to use irony for conveying their political content to audiences. After that, newspapers have to use such that contents because of competition among different media; based on media competition, different kinds of form and content have raised and developed. Some sort of content ingredients such as soft news, features, explanatory reports, irony contents as well as new kinds of topics, leads, pictures, colors, graphics, etc have helped to journalists in hard condition of competition for attracting and satiation of audiences.

The role and position of the media,in the world today, behooves that, along with its quantitave and qualitave spread, control and supervision over the function of this publicity and informative tool is also taken in to consideration .
For this reason, all the governments try to specify a structure and contrivance for controlling and Supervising the media, including the press, based on the culture, polities and the special characteristics of their society, in order to prevent it from misusing the freedom of speech.
These contrivances should be provided and applied carefully and according to the general principles, in order not to prevent the pressfrom beneficial and constructive activities.
The author of this paper tries to specify the adaotive level of this supervisorty institution with the legal principles and its role in ensuring the freedom of the press in Iran, by studying the structure and the function of the control board of the press and then tries to compare it with the general legal principles .
According to the studies, accepting the necessity of taking legal ground for constituting the press in Iran and assigning widespread powers to the control board of the press, show that the important responsibility of supervising has been granted to an institution that its function is not consistent with the legal principles and accordingly, the system is not able to ensure the freedom of the press.

Today, social scientists have focused on cultural issues as one of the most important subjects of their studies, although they offer different definitions on culture.
Over the years of living on earth, people of the world have shaped a variety of cultures based on the existing needs of the time and these cultures have transferred from one generation to the next. One of the main characteristics of all culture is their development on the basis of education and their transferability, so that they have changed or transferred by human migrations around the world.
Now, in the twenty-first century, and in the era of the small world, people seek to achieve a better life, education, employment, and appropriate revenues, and to live in a better world in order to do business and trade, and even having fun, so they travel or migrate to different parts of the world and transfer their cultures as well.
In the light of these studies, cultures have regained their status and importance in social issues, and have been even considered and emphasized as an important development factor.
This paper has briefly studied the cultures formation factors (symbols, language, values, and norms), cultural shocks, culture transfers by migrations, cultural conflicts, high culture versus popular culture, subcultures, and finally the important topic of multiculturalism.

Media as one of the major players in modern societies interact with other actors involved in community.Because of the great importance of media,political and legal systems have always been a special regulatory to control them.In this study, the media regulatory regime of the four countries; France,United States and Ghana, each representing a specific cultural geography are compared.It will compare the differences and similarities of these regulatory systems.For example the composition and type of monitoring systems and enforcement in each of the countries are different.