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Media Ethics: Principles and Standards

Media ethics refers to the standards of behavior for media practitioners and deals with principles like freedom of speech, privacy, and public interest. The main purpose of media is to provide information, analysis, and interpretation to the public. Media ethics considers the impact of media on its subjects and the public. It discusses concepts like truth and accuracy in reporting facts, fairness in representing multiple sides of stories, and avoiding harm to people with the media's words and images.

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Media Ethics: Principles and Standards

Media ethics refers to the standards of behavior for media practitioners and deals with principles like freedom of speech, privacy, and public interest. The main purpose of media is to provide information, analysis, and interpretation to the public. Media ethics considers the impact of media on its subjects and the public. It discusses concepts like truth and accuracy in reporting facts, fairness in representing multiple sides of stories, and avoiding harm to people with the media's words and images.

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Media ethics is the best division of applied ethics dealing with the specific ethical principles and standards

of media, including broadcast media,


film, theatre, the arts, print media and the internet. The main purpose of media is to provide information as well as analysis and interpretation.
Anything that hinders this function is unethical but that must be modified because ethics included being aware of the impact of what the media
practitioner is doing on the subject as well as to the public. The main point is media ethics or the ethics of media. Examples under the said topic
includes Freedom of Speech, Privacy and Public of interest. When it comes to media, the journalists shall have the right to say what they want and
only if it is the truth. The public interest is in having a safe, healthy and fully-functioning society. In a democracy, journalism plays a central role
in that. It gives people the information they need to take part in the democratic process. Some characteristics regarding media topics included
humanity, truth and accuracy and fairness.
TRUTH AND ACCURACY
Media ethics refers to the
Journalists can't generally ensure 'truth', yet getting the
standards of behavior
realities right is the cardinal rule of reporting. We
appropriate to media
ought to consistently make progress toward precision,
practice. It talks about what
give all the important realities we have and guarantee
the media are and what
that they have been checked. At the point when we
their purposes are. can't authenticate data we should say as much.

FAIRNESS
Most stories have at least two sides. While there is no
obligation to present every side in every piece, stories
should be balanced and add context.
MEDIA ETHICS

HUMANITY
Journalists should do no harm. What we publish or
broadcast may be hurtful, but we should be aware of
the impact of our words and images on the lives of
others.
PUBLIC INTEREST

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

PRIVACY

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