League of media practitioners have urged
journalists to ensure they maintain ethical standards in the discharge of their
duty.
They fault the manner some journalists parade themselves
in public, enjoined them to insist on doing the right thing if they really want
to command respect in the public.
The media practitioners said Journalists should strive
to maintain the highest standards of ethical conduct on their job, which span through
informing the public without compromise.
These were their resolutions reached at the end of
the one day media workshop organized my an Anambra online media platform for journalists
The participants enumerated some challenges
journalists face in the course of their duty, ranging from poor working cndition,
poor enumeration, compare to other professional bodies, non availability of
welfare package for members, nonpayment of salary and host of other working
incentives that should make a journalist not to comprise its ethical standard
of the media profession.
The people
suggest a regulatory framework for media owners to pass through same
structure that banks went through years back, with a pool of funds where
salaries and other incentives would be withdrawn, if an employers fails to pay his
workers.
Some suggest a holistic approach to media operation business, where core
professionals would be given the opportunity to operate, where quacks too would
be easily fished out and be shown the
way out.
The media practitioners however urged members to insist
on doing the right thing at all times, being the only medium where the
government and governed use to communicate.
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