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Based on what I posted so far, I learned and realized a lot of things.
The one obvious thing is that we cannot assume that what happens in the West or Asia does not happen all around the world. It is just not the same as globalization is the main thing which brought us together. One good example is the evolution of E-book mentioned in the previous post where the opposite effect happens here in Asia. That same goes for privacy laws and the act of stereotyping in publications.
However, those publications referred in those postings do follow certain rules which govern them. Those publications, either print documents or screen documents, have the same principle applied to them. This principle is the design features which differs according to types of document. According to Reep (2006, p.134), "design features increases the usefulness of documents [in terms of] guiding readers through the text, increase reader's interest and create a document that reflects the image you wish readers to have".
Also, being a journalist, blogger, editor or even a book author; we have our own rules and regulations which govern us. Problems happen to us when we break those ethical rules such as stereotyping, altering images to create false news, creating gender issues in our writings and being bias. We need to remember that any single thing which we voice out whether through print media, on-screen media or even through our own voice needs to follow the ethics of journalism.
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In Malaysia, the ethics of journalism according to the Canon of Journalism is as follows:-
1. The primary responsibility of the Malaysian journalist is to report facts accurately and faithfully and to respect the right of the public to the truth.
2. In pursuant of this duty he shall uphold the fundamental freedom in the honest collection of news and the right to fair comment and criticism.
3. He shall use only proper methods to obtain news, photographs/films and documents.
4. It shall be his duty to rectify and publish information found to be incorrect.
5. He shall respect the confidentiality of the source of information.
6. He shall uphold standards of morality in the performance of his duties and shall avoid plagiarism, calumny or slander, libel, sedition, unfounded accusations or acceptance of bribe in any form.
7. He shall avoid publication of news or reports, communal or extremist in nature, or contrary to the moral value of multiracial Malaysia.
8. It shall be incumbent upon him to understand public and national policies pertaining to the profession.
Besides that, the trend of publication is also evolving from time to time. Today, document designer have to think of attracting readers to the electronic document from the traditional print document. There are different principles between these two medium. For an electronic document, "readers can choose different pathways depending on their interest" (Walsh 2006, p.32). Readers can click on a numerous tabs or links available on the website which lead to different pathways. They can know the content of the document with a glance. Compared to print document, "readers will go through different levels of decoding, responding and comprehending at affective and cognitive level, critiquing and analyzing" (Walsh 2006, p.25). Therefore, a large effort is needed to put in convincing readers to change to a new medium which requires a total new reading path and level of decoding information.
Nevertheless, the day will come when digital media would play a dominant role as technology continues its relentless march. This trend is already evident in universities and colleges in that all students now require basically a laptop and some PC skills in order read digitized researched works.
Reference:
Eye on Ethics 2012, Canon of Journalism (Malaysia), viewed 3 November 2012, <http://www.eyeonethics.org/journalist-code-of-ethics-in-asia/canons-of-journalism-malaysia/>.
Reep, D 2006, Technical Writing, 6th edn, Pearson Education, New York.
Walsh, M 2006, 'The Textual Shift: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts', Australia Journal of Language and Literacy, vol. 29, no.1, pp.24-37.
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