legal and ethical


Topic B.1 Legal and ethical considerations
 
 
Libel
It is an untrue statement about a living person or existing institution that injures reputation by defamation, that is, by exposing them to public hatred, shame, disgrace or ridicule.  Slander is spoken defamation, but libel is the usual sort of lawsuit filed against the media or those who use the media to speak out.
 
Defamation
The publication of a statement about someone that lowers him or her in the estimation of right-thinking members of society generally, where no defence (usually truth, opinion, or qualified privilege) is available. The defences are dealt with below
 
Privacy
The Revised Explanatory Memorandum for the private sector provisions of the Privacy Act notes that this exemption ‘seeks to balance the public interest in providing adequate safeguards for the handling of personal information and the public interest in allowing a free flow of information to the public through the media’. One way a media organisation might demonstrate its public commitment to standards dealing with privacy is to show that it is a member of a media industry body and that membership of that body requires it to subscribe to a code of conduct developed and published by the industry body
 
Equality
In an ideal world, women and men would enjoy the same professional opportunities, share equal pay and feel equally represented in the workplace. But like most industries, the media continues to struggle with gender equality, in everything from creating news that is for and about women to promoting equal amounts of men and women to senior executive positions

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