cover image: Background Document: Guidance for the Myanmar Press Council

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Background Document: Guidance for the Myanmar Press Council

8 Mar 2022

In response to the complaint, the Press Council of India noted the severity of the allegations against the doctor, and the fact that the Royal Bulletin did not respond to the doctor’s complaint. [...] The Press Council decided to “admonish and censure the respondent newspaper Royal Bulletin for [its] incorrect and defamatory report and denial [of the doctor’s] right of reply” and forwarded a copy of its decision to the Information and Public Relations Department of the local government “for the action as they deem fit.”29 On 7 October 2014 the Press Council of Hong Kong found that an (unnamed). [...] The Press Council noted that editorial characterisation of the protests is properly a matter of opinion, but that the differences between the text and the title were misleading and therefore a violation of the Code of Professional Ethics. [...] The Press Council directed the newspaper to pay closer attention in the future, in order to ensure that the titles of its future reports did not mislead readers.30 The Australian Press Council considered the extent to which media must provide to the subject of a series of news articles a fair opportunity to respond to allegations of misconduct prior to the publication. [...] In 2014, the same Council heard a complaint from the Canadian Somali Congress alleging a story in the Toronto Star had made repeated reference to the Somali ethnicity of the criminal subjects of the story, “in violation of the Star’s own code of conduct.” The Press Council noted that “the use of ethnicity in a story must be justified and defendable,” but decided that the Star’s editor had provided.

Authors

Claire MacLean

Pages
24
Published in
Canada