What freedoms should journalists have? Why?
I think journalists should have a limited set of freedoms. They need some guidelines on what they can or cannot do. If they could report anything they wanted they would write a whole bunch of weird stories. They should have the freedoms of writing what ever they want to a limit, because people don't want a whole bunch of slanted stories that are wrong. If they did that they could put theirselves or the company in harm.
Shoud journalistic freedom be unlimited?
No they shouldn't have unlimited freedoms because they could write whatever they want even if it was true or false and it would still be published. If they had unlimited freedoms they could slant a whole bunch of things to make a company or corporation sound good or bad. So I don't believe journalists should have unlimited freedoms.
What responsibilities go with these freedoms?
Some responsibilities that come with these freedoms things like getting your story done and published on time. Because a newspaper has to go out on a certain day because the people subscribing to them want them when they are supposed to have them. Another responsibility is telling the truth and not slanting a persons words. If you slant their words you won't get the truth.
What are some examples of how journalistic freedom has been violated, either in Canada or abroad?
Violations of journalistic freedoms have been violated here in Canada and all over the world. There have been many stories where newspapers stereotype a race or religion in a news story. For example, in a story you don't have to say their native, black, jewish, catholic, italion, etc. unless it is relavant to the news story.
How free do you think that the press is free in Canada? In your community? In your school? Explain.
I don't the press is very free in Canada. You can't just put anything in a newspaper without it being approved by the government. I think they are somewhat free but only to an extent. If you are saying something to put down a person, race, culture or company you probably won't get it published. I think our press in Unity is pretty free. Almost any one can write a story and publish it in the paper. But if you are putting down our a culture or company then it probably won't get publish. So I think our press in Unity is pretty free but only to an extent. Our press at our school is not very free. Only teachers and the odd time a student can publish a story in the newspaper. So therefore it isn't very free.
Done by Rhett Lacoursiere
What do you mean by wierd stories? Even if journalists had limitations doesn't mean they are going to make stuff up right? and what if they do make stuff up, should there be a consequence, or a liability to what they are putting in the media? Who should journalists answer too?
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