Community Radio Pledge (pdf) - amarc

the concerned section of the readers giving as much importance as itwas given when carried for the first time.11. Journalists should make it a point to make sure that they do not lettheir personal interest prevail while working in the sacred professionof journalism.12. Journalists must keep distance from detestable activities like carryingfictitious news which have no basis with a view to create sensation,incite jealousy, envy, enmity or with a view to implant seed for quarrel.13. Journalists must try to attract faith, confidence, respect and dignityfrom the people towards them and their profession and retain it.14. One must be honest when it comes to publish news one may havecome across with someone reposing faith on one while also respectingthe right to privacy of others.15. It does not suit journalists to carry something which has got to do withthe personal lives of any individual out of spite with the motive ofslandering and accusing someone.16. It is a detestable act on the part of any journalist to indulge inintimidation, issuing threats and drawing benefits by indulging inquestionable means on the strength of the tremendous publicity onecan organize.17. It is the special responsibility of the journalists to stop advertisementswhich entails explicit sexual message, eroticism, those that adverselyaffect public morality and those that incite one to violence in theirpublications while also prevailing on others to follow suit.18. Rules governing this issue will be drawn up by Press Council from timeto time.121