Ethics and Freedom of the Press - Dustin Wallace

Journalists should have the freedom to expression, and freedom of the press. Journalists should be able to express everything they want, as long as it follows journalistic ethics. All journalists should know the statement of principles (http://www.caj.ca/?p=2o), if what a journalist wants to express violates one of these statements they should not publish it. Journalists should also have the freedom of the press, they should be able to put any story out for people to see, journalists job is to let people know about things they should know about. But again it has to agree with the statement of principles. If anything is going to raise ethical issues it should not be published.

Journalist should not have unlimited freedoms, there is a reason somethings are not public. If journalists had unlimited freedoms there would be no such thing as a secret because the journalists would have the right to let everybody know about it. There is a reason for secret, some things are better left unknown.

Journalistic freedoms are often violated, a recent example is when reporters put a video of Miley Cyrus doing drugs on the news. It was not fair to her, and they did not have her permission to do it. She was a role model for many girls, journalists did not have the right to put that on the news.

The press is very free in Canada. It seems like there is a news story about just about everything that happens nationally. Comparing Canada to other countries, like North Korea, our press is very free. In Unity it is very much the same, there's not much that isn't reported on. But in our school it is different. There is not much that is shared to the students, the teachers seem to keep everything they know about events and such to them selves till the last minute. The press is not very free at our school.