Friday, 16 November 2012

Legal Responsibilities Journalists Have?

According to a website that I found, journalists have three basic responsibilities.

One of them is social responsibilities, this basically means on how the press reflect on the social images that are presented in our society. They need to make sure that the images are fair, truthful, inspiring and that they meet the needs of common consumers of the news. They usually high-light unsolved areas of the society, they have to make sure that they don't overlook or avoid a part of responsibility towards the society.
They should make an environment basis of understanding within the society and continue the same in an orderly manner, mainly so it satisfies everyone.

Another one is the legal responsibilities  this one is simple, they need to make sure that they don't plagiarise anyone else's work, pictures (meaning that they need to get permission to use the picture from the original creator). They can not inflict on anyone's privacy or confide in a matter until it is brought notice to the public. Definitely NO hacking into anyone's phones, computers or any other electrical equipment (kind of basic, unless you want another BBC incident).

The last one is professional responsibilities, this is where a journalist should have "sincerity and commitment" towards the profession. Any news of any event that is or will be published to the audience must be "delineated" (describing or portraying something precisely)  clearly and fairly. The presentation must be truthful, they can not be bias and must not bring any embarrassment to the organization that will complicate things in the future. "They have to report a fair and undistorted report to the audience instead of crowding them intentially or allegedly to meet the present challenging situation of the news world".
Anything more on the legal responsibilities that journalist have, click the link below.
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/phazra57/200902/1648/

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