SELF REGULATION AND ETHICAL JOURNALISM

Self regulation and ethical journalism

Self regulation and ethical journalism

Introduction

It has been said that the best press law is one that does not impose, but far being a deregulated activity or lacking standards, more honest journalism is governed by strict self-imposed duties, which not only establish the "rules of the game" for its journalists and the framework and limits for the medium itself, but an explicit with society and public opinion, as to accuracy and fairness. This framework civic and professional establishing the initiative of publishing companies themselves are Style Manuals plasma, Statements of Principles or Codes of Ethics.

The word "power" is taboo. Everyone tries to avoid it. So there is enormous confusion about power and direction, it is bad because for effective leadership, we must have power and know how to use. The dynamics of power is a necessary and important component of the management process.

The "power” is an attractive concept, or reprehensible, according to the methods used to obtain it and the purposes for which they are used.

Unfortunately, for many people, power is a word by which an aversion - is easier to talk about money, including sex, that on power -the domain associated with the handling of subordinates by bosses, with forms primitive exercise of leadership. This is a narrow way of looking at the power that is not necessarily associated with aggression, brute force, manipulation or deception. It can also be seen as a sign of personal effectiveness as ability to mobilize resources, to recognize and encourage people.

The power evokes the possibility to influence someone for something. Taking into account that the conventional definition of what is directing, is "getting results through others," we understand the attention paid specialists "management”. He recognized Minztberg the early eighties, when he said right now everyone seems to be investigating issues of power within organizations. It has become a respectable topic.

The issue is analyzed by specialists in management, from different perspectives: as a motivating factor, as a managerial skill, his relationship with organizational strategies and structures, too, the role of external and internal coalitions systems influence, among others (Kotter, 2010, pp. 15-90).

For his current interest, complementing most widespread issues in the management literature, as motivation and leadership, among others, this chapter is a summary of the main approaches used in the study of this subject, specialists "management”.

Discussion

A media is more than just a newspaper company and often not generate large profits, except for the formidable power that can reach the society. An intangible power, true, but no less real. The power to transmit values ??and shared meanings. To inform, guide and entertain. To supervise the acts of authority, denounce injustice and seek the truth. This power has increased in this "information society" in which we live, where communication is instantaneous and what happens in remote parts of the world is possible witness in real time around the globe. Especially when the great utopias, collective projects and social participation, have lost ground in favor of the individuation, democracy ...