Freedom of opinion, expression and press are human rights protected, the 1945 Constitution, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations. Freedom of the press is a means for the community to obtain information and communicate, in order to fulfill essential needs and improve the quality of human life. In realizing the freedom of the press,USA are also aware of the interests of the nation, social responsibility, diversity of society, and religious norms.
In carrying out its functions, rights, obligations and roles, the press respects everyone's human rights, therefore the press is demanded to be professional and open to be controlled by the community.
To guarantee freedom of the press and fulfill the public's right to obtain correct information, USA journalists need a moral and professional ethics foundation as operational guidelines in maintaining public trust and upholding integrity and professionalism. On that basis, USA journalists establish and abide by the Journalistic Code of Ethics:
article 1
USA journalists are independent, produce accurate, balanced news and have no bad intentions.
Interpretation
a. Independent means reporting events or facts in accordance with the voice of conscience without interference, coercion, and intervention from other parties including the owner of the press company.
b. Accurate means true believed according to the objective situation when the event occurred.
c. Balanced means that all parties have equal opportunities.
d. Not having bad intentions means that there is no intention to intentionally and solely to cause harm to others.
Section 2
USA journalists take professional ways to carry out their journalistic duties.
Interpretation
Professional ways are:
a. show identity to the interviewees;
b. respect for privacy rights;
c. not bribe;
d. produce factual and clear source news;
e. engineering of the taking and loading or broadcasting of images, photographs, sound and is accompanied by information about the source and displayed in a balanced manner;
f. respecting the traumatic experience of the resource person in presenting images, photos, sounds;
g. not plagiarism, including stating the results of other journalists' coverage as their own work;
h. the use of certain methods can be considered for reporting investigative news in the public interest.
Article 3
Indonesian journalists always test information, report in a balanced manner, do not mix facts and judgmental opinions, and apply the principle of presumption of innocence.
Interpretation
a. Testing information means checking and rechecking the truth of that information.
b. Balanced is to give proportional space or time for reporting to each party.
c. Opinion judge is the personal opinion of a journalist. This is different from interpretive opinion, which is opinion in the form of journalist's interpretation of facts.
d. The principle of presumption of innocence is the principle of not judging someone.
Article 4
Indonesian journalists do not make false, slanderous, sadistic and obscene news.
Interpretation
a. Lying means something that has been known before by reporters as something that is not in accordance with the facts that occur.
b. Defamation means baseless accusations made intentionally with bad intentions.
c. Sadistic means the cruel and relentless.
d. Obscene means erotic depictions of behavior with photos, images, sounds, graphics or writing solely to arouse sexual desire.
e. In broadcasting pictures and sound from the archives, reporters include the time of shooting and sound.
NEW York, Tuesday, March 14, 2020
(Journalistic Code of Ethics was established by the Press Council through Press Council Regulation Number: 6 / Regulation-DP / V / 2008 concerning Ratification of Press Council Decree Number 03 / SK-DP / III / 2006 concerning Journalistic Code of Ethics as a Press Council Regulation)
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