Community Radio Pledge (pdf) - amarc

Some Rules Governing Journalists AsPrepared By Press Council, 19591. It is the important duty of the Nepalese journalists to forget thepersonal and partisan interest with national interest uppermost in themind while making it sure that the same does not come under anythreat while upholding/telling others to uphold the nationalsentiments.2. Since His Majesty the King and family are above public criticism beingpart of the holy institution apart from being the symbol of nationalunity journalists should not rake up any kind of controversy or criticismtargeted at the Shah family.3. Journalists should be working hard in a special way. While fulfillingone’s responsibility journalists must respect fundamental human andsocial rights respecting others prestige while also they live up to thetruth and honesty in the course of expressing their views innewspapers.4. Press (newspapers and magazines) is the primary vehicle when it comesto create public opinion. This is the reason why the people who areinvolved in this field should at all times consider that each and everytask around them is associated with public interest and that they mustremain alert at all times and also refrain from doing things which poisonslife in society.5. Journalists must be careful when it comes to publish or broadcast materialslike news and editorial comments which have got to do with boostingcommunal sympathy, those which can add to religious bitterness andthose which encourage terror, unrest and violence.6. Journalists must avail the right to news collection and publishing and alsoright to criticize in unhindered manner but they have to take special carethat the news and editorial comments are based on facts and figures.7. Journalists must also take care that they are not presenting as news bytwisting the tale something which is not news at all. Readers must notbe deliberately confused.8. Journalists should consider it as sin just in the event they publishnews which is known to be false or not believed to be true.9. Rather point should be made to mention that the news is not somethingwhich is independently confirmed so that no one is left in a confusingsituation.10. One must send out an erratum just in the event the news carried by oneturns out to be baseless as soon as it is learned. Moreover point shouldbe made to carry the correction to the news items which comes from120