We have been victims of ignorance of ourselves, not knowing what our rights and obligations in thinking or writing their own.
The Felap proclaims the following Code of Journalistic Ethics Latinoamericano:
Article 1 - Journalism should be a service of general interest, with eminently social functions aimed at the development of the individual and the community. Journalists should actively participate in social change-oriented democratic development of society, and devote his conscience and professional work to promote respect for freedoms and human rights.
Article 2 - Journalism should contribute to strengthening peace, coexistence, self-determination of peoples, disarmament, international detente and mutual understanding among all peoples of the world, fighting for the equality of human beings without distinction race, opinion, origin, language, religion or nationality. It is an inescapable duty of the journalist in Latin America contribute to economic independence, political and cultural life of our nations and peoples, and the establishment of a New International Economic Order and the decolonization of information.
Article 3 - are also imperative duty of the journalist: Foster, consolidate and defend freedom of expression and the right to information, understood as the right of peoples to inform and be informed. Promote the conditions for the establishment of free and balanced flow of nations at the global, regional and national levels.
Fight for a new information order in accordance with the interests of the people to replace the currently prevailing in most Latin American countries distorting reality.
fight for the democratization of information to the journalist exercising his mission of professional mediator and agent of social change and that the community has access to that same information. Reject the propaganda
of inevitability of war, the threat and use of force in international conflicts.
Article 4 - In his professional work journalist adopt the principles of truth and fairness and lack of ethics when silence, distort or misrepresent the facts, provide the public with information about the context of events and about opinions on them are issued so that the recipient of the news message can interpret the origin and basis of the facts. In the dissemination of ideas and opinions the journalists will advocate the conditions so that they can express themselves democratically and are not constrained by commercial interests, advertising or otherwise.
Article 5 - The reporter is responsible for the information and opinions, accept the existence of rights of reply and shall respect professional secrecy regarding sources.
Article 6 - Journalists should do their work within the framework of the integrity and dignity of the profession, require respect for their beliefs, ideas or opinions as well as information materials given to its source of employment, fight for access to decision making in the media to work. In legal respect seek the establishment of legal statutes that enshrine the rights and professional duties.
Article 7 - actions are in violation of professional ethics: Plagiarism and disrespect for intellectual property. Bribery, kickbacks and extortion. The omission of information of public interest. Libel and slander. Sensationalism.
Article 8 - violation is considered a high degree of professional ethics involvement or complicity of journalists in the repression of the press and information workers.
Article 9 - The journalist must strengthen the organization and trade union unity or union where they exist and help create them where they are not linked to the movement and of the working class of his country.
Article 10 - The journalist should seek the best knowledge and ensure the protection of national values \u200b\u200bespecially for the language as a cultural expression and as a general factor of new forms of culture.
Article 11 - is a journalist must contribute to the protection of nature and report the facts that generate pollution and environmental destruction. The Latin American Journalism Ethics Code comes into force upon its approval by the Second Latin American Congress of Journalists. As seen with the naked eye is the transcribed text of his time journalist much commitment is required explicit political. Moreover the survey results FELAP of 1985 show that the arrogant state of the owners of the media has not changed in most Latin American countries is the attitude of UNESCO against compulsory licensing of journalists, how strong roots in Latin America had been thrown.
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