Codes
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The following points to be noted:
1) Polite comments are welcome
2) Personal attacks or abuses will not be published
3) Nor will racist comments.
4) Comments denigrating any community or religion will not be published.
5) In fact, no indecent, inflammatory, slanderous or uncivil comment/trackback will be published. If you want to pick a fight do it somewhere else.
6) Any comment irrelevant to the discussion itself may not be published and nor will repetitive comments.
7) Although I allow anonymous comments, they make me uncomfortable.
8.The opinions expressed by the commentators are not necessarily my own.
9). Twisting or misinterpreting either the post or the comments will not be appreciated and will get an appropriate response. Such a comment will be percieved by me to be dishonest. It will either be responded to firmly, edited or deleted.
10) Arguments are welcome…put across in a decent, civilized way. In fact I welcome a debate.
So why all these restrictions? Well, this is a private blog and therefore like any journalistic medium, the rights lie with me. And as in my personal life I tend to be a polite well-meaning person I tend to seek out those who are like this – no matter what their religion, their political leanings, caste, country or colour.
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Code of conduct
The NUJ‘s Code of Conduct has set out the main principles of British and Irish journalism since 1936. It is part of the rules and all journalists joining the union must sign that they will strive to adhere to it.
1. A journalist has a duty to maintain the highest professional and ethical standards.
2. A journalist shall at all times defend the principle of the freedom of the press and other media in relation to the collection of information and the expression of comment and criticism. He/she shall strive to eliminate distortion, news suppression and censorship.
3. A journalist shall strive to ensure that the information he/she disseminates is fair and accurate, avoid the expression of comment and conjecture as established fact and falsification by distortion, selection or misrepresentation.
4. A journalist shall rectify promptly any harmful inaccuracies, ensure that correction and apologies receive due prominence and afford the right of reply to persons criticised when the issue is of sufficient importance.
5. A journalist shall obtain information, photographs and illustrations only by straightforward means. The use of other means can be justified only by overriding considerations of the public interest. The journalist is entitled to exercise a personal conscientious objection to the use of such means.
6. A journalist shall do nothing which entails intrusion into anybody’s private life, grief or distress, subject to justification by overriding considerations of the public interest.
7. A journalist shall protect confidential sources of information.
8. A journalist shall not accept bribes nor shall he/she allow other inducements to influence the performance of his/her professional duties.
9. A journalist shall not lend himself/herself to the distortion or suppression of the truth because of advertising or other considerations.
10. A journalist shall mention a person’s age, sex, race, colour, creed, illegitimacy, disability, marital status, or sexual orientation only if this information is strictly relevant. A journalist shall neither originate nor process material which encourages discrimination, ridicule, prejudice or hatred on any of the above-mentioned grounds.
11. A journalist shall not interview or photograph children in connection with stories concerning their welfare without the permission of a parent or other adult responsible for their welfare.
12. No journalist shall knowingly cause or allow the publication or broadcast of a photograph that has been manipulated unless that photograph is clearly labelled as such. Manipulation does not include normal dodging, burning, colour balancing, spotting, contrast adjustment, cropping and obvious masking for legal or safety reasons.
13. A journalist shall not take private advantage of information gained in the course of his/her duties before the information is public knowledge.
14. A journalist shall not by way of statement, voice or appearance endorse by advertisement any commercial product or service save for the promotion of his/her own work or of the medium by which he/she is employed.
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