ETHICS: SHELTER OF FREEDOMS AND DUTIES
By Karina Moreno Rojas
Ethics is a set of rules that provide rights and obligations established in all areas professionals, of course, journalism would be no exception, the discussion is the true reflection of those rules and their application (within it compulsory) and ability to adapt to the international aspect.
The establishment of codes of journalistic ethics is nothing new, dating from 1950 as outlined in the text of Alberto Ruiz entitled The legal challenge of international communication . Their importance has been given to the extent of the practice, abuse of journalists, media, government, public institutions and of course the same society for professionals journalism.
Therefore, according to the text quoted above, the Organization of the United Nations in 1974 established the relevance not only to national codes, but international safeguarding the rights and duties of the journalist.
This way we will seek to four main areas: protecting freedom and responsibilities of journalists while the rest of the population is protected from the professional group known as the fourth power, establish ethics in the inner workings of journalism (among owners and reporters); identify journalism as a profession in public service and not the self-interest, and establish the relationship of the profession to society.
"professional ethical principles are the product of the need of the professional group to devise a set of rules that define and control their rights (freedom) and duties (responsibilities), their occupational behavior within the group, the professional ideal and its relationship to society within which it operates " [a] . Therefore
has tried to create national codes attached to their own political culture and even the media themselves have made their codes of ethics that determine the behavior of their employees, but does not include administrative and technological areas.
worth mentioning that in most countries there are certain restrictions on the freedom of journalists to practice their profession based on concepts such as public order, moral principles accepted, national security and democratic institutions and, in some countries in national security.
I would like to speak especially of a subject that is handled in the text, refers to professional ethical principles common to most codes of various countries, interested me deeply in objectivity, fairness and impartiality.
The term justice is no mention of the methods to be used by journalists all times to do their work (including obtaining information), which must be correct and legal. But it is well known that at least investigative journalism [2] this is not possible, since the ultimate aim is to find something hidden information or for certain reasons does not want to disclose (usually characterized to be dangerous) and the public interest because it affects a society or a particular group of it.
Examples of this, great journalistic feats of this kind are precisely cases like Watergate, deep stories books for many years as Cold Blood or some most recently as Head of Turkish or undesirable journalist Günter Wallraff both also The adventure of Miguel Littin Clandestine in Chile by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and latest Demons of Eden of Lydia Cacho, or perhaps Today death touches you, Bones in the Desert, Family Presidential or With the death in his pocket , among others.
In the case of the term fairness as defined in the text and the journalist's duty to "present all possible angles of an issue, report on it in a balanced and unbiased [3] " without However, the same definition is managed for objectivity, then what differentiates one from another?, I want to clarify that the text is not handled as synonyms, but as different principles.
And coming in, the term objectivity, taking into account the above in the text is defined in the same way that fairness is a controversial issue and little studied and reflected in journalism, more so in ethical policies.
currently manages the theory of journalism as lacking objectivity, as society and even the reality (which is the center for the study of journalism) are not rigid objects possible to be observed and explained without the intervention of the mediator (journalist), ie there is inevitably a process of interpretation where subjectivity is involved, it depends on the subject, their ideology, preparation, knowledge, perspective, context, inter alia, the prospect taking the event. Therefore
journalism speaks of truth, which refers to not distort the information, not add, remove, or put more than one party to another with intent to injure someone or something, always present the facts as closely as possible the event.
Dr. Lourdes Romero, a professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (FCPyS) explains in his book Reality built in journalism: objectivity does not exist in the fact, but in the reconstruction of the work product of the journalist. The investigation leading to contextualize the fact and the realization of their findings in the report produced from the subjectivity of the journalist [...] The meaning of objectivity has been renewed today, now involves professional attitude towards the truth, subjective well-intentioned " [4] .
In conclusion, both the definition which implies objectivity should be reflected upon and studied in terms of true journalism, understanding the embodiments, the importance of the subject and and the medium also influences through its editorial, the obstacles faced by all journalists, and the difficulties of the profession and its partial or no recognition as a profession (even confusing trade) and the lack of theory establishing journalistic research methodology (selection of fact, context and research and writing) at all times it is determined by the work of the subject.
I think it's important for the implementation of codes of ethics at the national level (international fortiori the difficulty) are really understands what it is journalistic work and determine what issues and hinder the only way that will be possible to create rules seeking to control the attitudes of professionals will otherwise be the difference in terms and in much less price-no other reasons says the author in his text The legal challenge of international communication, in the impossibility of creating an international code, and that does not value the importance and necessary intervention of the subject in fact.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
ROMERO Lourdes, constructed reality in journalism: theoretical reflections , Mexico, Edit: Porrua, UNAM, FCPyS, 2006, p. 197. Alberto RUIZ
, Journalism: ethical principles and practice codes " in The legal challenge of international communication , Mexico, Edit, New Image, 1979, p. 125-150.
Ethics is a set of rules that provide rights and obligations established in all areas professionals, of course, journalism would be no exception, the discussion is the true reflection of those rules and their application (within it compulsory) and ability to adapt to the international aspect.
The establishment of codes of journalistic ethics is nothing new, dating from 1950 as outlined in the text of Alberto Ruiz entitled The legal challenge of international communication . Their importance has been given to the extent of the practice, abuse of journalists, media, government, public institutions and of course the same society for professionals journalism.
Therefore, according to the text quoted above, the Organization of the United Nations in 1974 established the relevance not only to national codes, but international safeguarding the rights and duties of the journalist.
This way we will seek to four main areas: protecting freedom and responsibilities of journalists while the rest of the population is protected from the professional group known as the fourth power, establish ethics in the inner workings of journalism (among owners and reporters); identify journalism as a profession in public service and not the self-interest, and establish the relationship of the profession to society.
"professional ethical principles are the product of the need of the professional group to devise a set of rules that define and control their rights (freedom) and duties (responsibilities), their occupational behavior within the group, the professional ideal and its relationship to society within which it operates " [a] . Therefore
has tried to create national codes attached to their own political culture and even the media themselves have made their codes of ethics that determine the behavior of their employees, but does not include administrative and technological areas.
worth mentioning that in most countries there are certain restrictions on the freedom of journalists to practice their profession based on concepts such as public order, moral principles accepted, national security and democratic institutions and, in some countries in national security.
I would like to speak especially of a subject that is handled in the text, refers to professional ethical principles common to most codes of various countries, interested me deeply in objectivity, fairness and impartiality.
The term justice is no mention of the methods to be used by journalists all times to do their work (including obtaining information), which must be correct and legal. But it is well known that at least investigative journalism [2] this is not possible, since the ultimate aim is to find something hidden information or for certain reasons does not want to disclose (usually characterized to be dangerous) and the public interest because it affects a society or a particular group of it.
Examples of this, great journalistic feats of this kind are precisely cases like Watergate, deep stories books for many years as Cold Blood or some most recently as Head of Turkish or undesirable journalist Günter Wallraff both also The adventure of Miguel Littin Clandestine in Chile by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and latest Demons of Eden of Lydia Cacho, or perhaps Today death touches you, Bones in the Desert, Family Presidential or With the death in his pocket , among others.
In the case of the term fairness as defined in the text and the journalist's duty to "present all possible angles of an issue, report on it in a balanced and unbiased [3] " without However, the same definition is managed for objectivity, then what differentiates one from another?, I want to clarify that the text is not handled as synonyms, but as different principles.
And coming in, the term objectivity, taking into account the above in the text is defined in the same way that fairness is a controversial issue and little studied and reflected in journalism, more so in ethical policies.
currently manages the theory of journalism as lacking objectivity, as society and even the reality (which is the center for the study of journalism) are not rigid objects possible to be observed and explained without the intervention of the mediator (journalist), ie there is inevitably a process of interpretation where subjectivity is involved, it depends on the subject, their ideology, preparation, knowledge, perspective, context, inter alia, the prospect taking the event. Therefore
journalism speaks of truth, which refers to not distort the information, not add, remove, or put more than one party to another with intent to injure someone or something, always present the facts as closely as possible the event.
Dr. Lourdes Romero, a professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (FCPyS) explains in his book Reality built in journalism: objectivity does not exist in the fact, but in the reconstruction of the work product of the journalist. The investigation leading to contextualize the fact and the realization of their findings in the report produced from the subjectivity of the journalist [...] The meaning of objectivity has been renewed today, now involves professional attitude towards the truth, subjective well-intentioned " [4] .
In conclusion, both the definition which implies objectivity should be reflected upon and studied in terms of true journalism, understanding the embodiments, the importance of the subject and and the medium also influences through its editorial, the obstacles faced by all journalists, and the difficulties of the profession and its partial or no recognition as a profession (even confusing trade) and the lack of theory establishing journalistic research methodology (selection of fact, context and research and writing) at all times it is determined by the work of the subject.
I think it's important for the implementation of codes of ethics at the national level (international fortiori the difficulty) are really understands what it is journalistic work and determine what issues and hinder the only way that will be possible to create rules seeking to control the attitudes of professionals will otherwise be the difference in terms and in much less price-no other reasons says the author in his text The legal challenge of international communication, in the impossibility of creating an international code, and that does not value the importance and necessary intervention of the subject in fact.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
ROMERO Lourdes, constructed reality in journalism: theoretical reflections , Mexico, Edit: Porrua, UNAM, FCPyS, 2006, p. 197. Alberto RUIZ
, Journalism: ethical principles and practice codes " in The legal challenge of international communication , Mexico, Edit, New Image, 1979, p. 125-150.
[1] Alberto RUIZ, Journalism: ethical principles and practice codes " in The legal challenge of international communication , p. 5.
[2] It is characterized by extensive research, something new that is to keep hidden and that is of public interest because it affects some shape society.
[3] P. 10.
[4] ROMERO Lourdes, constructed reality in journalism: theoretical reflections , p. 26
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