Hong Kong Issues Work Regulations for JournalistsAfter 9 month's preparation work, four Hong Kong professional news groups lately released a work regulation for journalists, showing that the Hong Kong press is intending to strengthen self-discipline through regulations to prevent extravagant speech and privacy invasion in news reports.The regulation contains ten rules, requesting journalists to guarantee the truthfulness of news reports and treat news materials in a fair, precise, objective, and comprehensive manner, without any possible distortion and misleading. For the regulation, 18 Hong Kong news institutions out of 27 voiced their support. Some local societies pointed out that, the regulation is only morally binding rather than legally; supervision and criticism from the masses is still needed to solve the problem of media pollution. And a supervising group formed by people from all walks of life will bring benefits instead of harms. |
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