Community Radio Pledge (pdf) - amarc

efforts aimed at disintegrating the nation must discouraged.12. Efforts aimed at encouraging people to resort to violence to sort outtheir differences must be discouraged without any hesitation.13. News related to national integrity and honor, national developmentand nation building, education, health, culture and issues of publicinterest must be prioritized.14. It is the indivisible duty of the media to turn the public opinion, moralityand feeling of cooperation in favor of the state during national crisesknowing fully well that press freedom stands curtailed through such aphase.15. Since the media is responsible for extending added contribution whenit comes to keeping the national security intact newspapers must becareful in ensuring that secrecy surrounding security is not violated inany way.16. Journalists must while disseminating news and views related tofundamental social and economic programs and policy of the nationmust base their evaluation on wisdom, a need to strike the balance,sympathy, and feeling of camaraderie.17. While publishing news and views point should be made to stick todesirable language while at the same not resorting to undesirable stylewhile embarking on criticism and counter-criticism as far as possible.18. Point should be made to ensure that it does not lead to incitement andperversion while reporting news related to sex and crime.19. Journalists should not allow personal interest to have adverse impacton professional obligations neither should the journalists drag theprofession out of its jurisdiction to meet personal interests.20. It is condemnable for journalists just in case one demands financial orany kind of physical assistance or encouragement to meet selfishinterest from just about anyone as part of the objective to either haveany news or views published or protesting the same.21. There should not be ill-will among journalists emanating from personaldifferences. It is not a desirable thing for a journalist to come up withpublications which affect each others profession neither it is good toraise questions about the existence of the other as a journalist nor it isdesirable for a journalist to invite attack and counter-attack or initiatepublic debate into issues which are private in nature for purely personalreasons.123