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ethics concerned to media
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There is no journalistic code of ethics in Islamic framework for mass media. It is thus hard for Islamic communication researchers to find a well-defined Islamic code of ethics in regard.
However, with evolution of new media, some Islamic scholars believe that communication should be directed towards the achievement of both physical and spiritual development of human being. The technology is encouraged in Islam as a mean to manage earth according to the will and purpose of Allah. Moreover, Islam gives a complete code of life and hence enables us to derive the ethics for emerging form of communication-media. Scholars summarize the code of ethics in 3 clauses,
Ethics and value that are universal in nature are acceptable to every society and religion. Nonetheless apparently, the Muslim world face this challenge of being without any concise ethics in written nut a few countries have devised a set of rules for regulation within their own premises. For example,
An extract from the Emirates charter of media ethics include,
In Turkey, the Society of Professional Journalists' ethics code, with four main principles of "Seek truth and report it, minimize harm, act independently, be accountable."
The Code of Ethics of the Indonesian Journalist adopted at Bandung on 6 August 1999, by 26 journalists’ organizations; it is followed by an “interpretation” of the code drafted in Jakarta on 1 September 1999.