Open AccessMedia freedom with integrity and ethics
Author(s) -
Satendra Nandan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v20i2.163
Subject(s) - freedom of the press , democracy , harmony (color) , politics , privilege (computing) , law , publishing , academic freedom , sociology , project commissioning , civil society , professional responsibility , political science , public relations , higher education , art , visual arts
In Fiji, too much damage had been done by tendentious propaganda by a few that had frayed the fabric of the Fijian society at so many levels of social harmony and political growth of a young democratic nation. And once a nation (and a person) suffers heart-attacks, it must take care of its daily diet and exercise both restraint and responsibility. This is never more important than during an election. This commentary argues that freedom of the press, academic freedom and parliamentary privilege, are advanced and strengthened by those who practise these with professional ethics and personal integrity and conscientiously deepen public trust, individually and collectively. When the institutions are diminished, everybody is diminished.