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The need for a Charter on Freedom of Expression and Journalistic Ethics in Relation to Respect for Religion or Belief cannot be questioned. The events of the last few years and the instances where some religion is the target of hate speech, bias, stereotyping, misconceptions and misunderstanding in some country by some media have become legion. The time has come to articulate a set of standards and principles to guide the media in the area of religion or belief and to allow all segments of society to determine whether those standards have been violated through unethical conduct.
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Journalistic standards must proceed from the overall goal of getting the truth out. (Truth value is the “general major premise” of journalistic art, to use John Stuart Mill’s terminology). That is why anonymity is protected in the first place: so that sources will come forward. That backfires if anonymity can cover for false information. The priority at that point has to switch to uncovering the source of the false information and the motivation for it, with bad actors identified for future reference.
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Question 1: As of when has there been a discussion on journalistic ethics in the region concerned? Through which channel was this discussion triggered, and what are its main points, in terms of content?
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All of these actions would be serious violations of journalistic ethics and, according to the Times report, they proved troubling for some of the subjects of these stories. They ... would involve deception of both Blair’s employers and fellow journalists. If true, this conduct would without question be grounds for severe discipline, including dismissal. Such action would appropriately be accompanied by a sober notice to inform readers about the incident, while keeping in mind that the newspaper was dealing with someone that it itself described as “troubled young man.”
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The principles of Journalistic codes of ethics are designed as guides through numerous difficulties, such as conflicts of interest, to assist journalists in dealing with ethical dilemmas. The codes and canons provide journalists a framework for self-monitoring and self-correction as they pursue professional assignments.
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As shown in the discussion of the ethics of conviction and the ethics of responsibility, empirical studies, with respect to journalistic ethics, are extremely important. Surveys of journalists, for example, can give a picture of journalistic ethics. A survey of German journalists, by Beate Schneider, Klaus Schönbach and Dieter Stürzbecher (1992), showed, for instance, with respect to an evaluation of the legitimacy of controversial research methods that 75% of the journalists polled would use secret government documents; 46% were prepared to pose as an employee in a business or an organisation to access internal information. Nearly 40% would pretend to have opinions or attitudes other than their own in order to gain the trust of an informant. Nearly 30% of journalists were prepared to procure confidential documents by offering money. Nearly 30% were ... prepared to pretend to be someone else to acquire information.
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