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Is the role that journalism plays misunderstood for lack of ethics and dishonesty?
Due to the actual role of the journalist, it is easy to see why some of these things that journalists do seem to be unethical. Their role involves gathering information from incidents that are generally negative in nature, and therefore are hard to obtain relevant and correct information from. Not all journalists are unethical, and there are plenty of journalists out there that behave in a sound and ethical manner. But due to some of the more unethical behaviour that has been exposed and displayed for the public to see, this gives journalism a bad reputation and a bad name for being dishonest and unethical. However the statistics that I have shown here from the IPRA: The survey concluded that unethical practices took more sophisticated forms in first world countries. In Australia, 60 per cent of PR people reported that they knew of staff journalists who were also employed by a company or PR agency. (Mitchell, S. 2002.). Dictates that a large amount of unethical behaviour exists within our democracy and continues to flourish and promote corruption throughout journalism as a profession.
References:
Media Watch. 1999. Jones and Cash for Comment. Stories in 1999. http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s1085792.htm (accessed March 17th, 2010)
Levine, P. 2009. Journalism and Democracy: Does it Matter How Well the Press Covers Iraq?. http://www.peterlevine.ws/NCR_Iraq.pdf (accessed March 17th, 2010)
MEAA. 2010. Media Alliance Code of Ethics. http://www.alliance.org.au/media_alliance_code_of_ethics/ (accessed March 15th, 2010)
Mitchell, S. 2002. Survey shows unethical journalism is rife. THE POST.IE. http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost /2002/07/21/story302552628.asp (accessed March 17th, 2010)