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“Attending the meeting of the Moldovan Press Council, I was wondering what decisions our Ukrainian Commission would have issued in those cases. I am sure that in 99 percent of the cases reviewed the Ukrainian Commission would have made similar decisions. This means that we have common journalistic standards with Moldova,” one of the members of the Ukrainian Commission of Journalistic Ethics Mihail Batig said after the meeting. “When I saw with how much interest the football club came and how they argued their position, with how much respect they asked whether they could post the Council’s decision on the club’s website, I realized that there was a thinking here in the spirit of human rights and self-defense. I know Journalist Self-Regulation Practices in the New Democracies 7
many cases when stories were written or TV items were broadcast in Georgia about football teams but no one thought of going to court to defend their honor or to appeal to the media self-regulation body,” said another conference participant, the Head of the Council of the Charter for Journalistic Ethics of Georgia Zviad Koridze. Several joint sessions followed where the representatives of self-regulation structures from each country presented in detail a few cases of violation by the media of those countries of the principles of presumption of innocence and protection of privacy. Each case reviewed raised ardent discussions. The participants reached the conclusion that many times journalists nondeliberately disclosed personal data and this was the consequence of insufficient knowledge of journalistic ethics. The need for continuous training was stressed, especially training of the persons who work in the media without having adequate journalistic training. 8 Journalist Self-Regulation Practices in the New Democracies
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Page 14 and 15: Avez Rustamov: “The press is shak
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