Media Ethics, sources of ethics and Journalist role in LAL masjid

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Ethics from the Ancient Greek moral philosophy", from the adjective of "custom, habit”, a major branch of philosophy, is the study of values and customs of a person or group. It covers the analysis and employment of concepts such as right and wrong, good and evil, and responsibility.
Ethics is a branch of philosophy. It is related to human nature. It reflects our behaviour.It plays an important role in building up our nature and behavior. As a society is made by people and their behavior and ethics plays an important role in organizing our
behaviors so it is an important part of a society.

Ethics is a branch of philosophy that deals with moral component of human life.

Sources of Ethics
There are certain sources of ethics. These sources include those persons, places or people which affect our lives at different stages and thus help us in developing and adopting our ethics. These sources are as follows.
1. Parents
2. Peer groups
3. Educational institutions
4. Teen Age [school level]
5. Adult Age [higher studies]
6. Observations & Experiences
7. Society
Parents
I think parents play important role in the personality development of their children. Because children first practical learning institution is his mother. Parents are the role of model for their children initially at first stage. Parents portray their behavior and attitude toward their children. Parent teaches us how to behave in front of guest. How to behave with elders, how to do talk and walk, how to deal with others how to perform certain acts in a good manner, how to respect elder and love younger. They always guide us to make comparison between evil and good. Parents are builder of our personality to keep good thinking, habits, character and be bonified to every one. They let us know do not harm the character and always respect for self esteem, self image. As it is our moral obligation to do have spoken truth at any condition or at any form. Parents training remain long lasting and unending impact in the personality of children.
Children always get impact fore mostly by their parents by copying them and behaving as his own parents are behaving. Our ethical behavior is product of multiple component and course of action. But parents are important more than any of other. Because we spend most of our time with our parents. We follow more to our parent rather than any other person. Our parents are our more expose and open to us so we believe to do whatever comes to our mind. If we do something wrong with our parent they can forgive because we are their children but any other person cannot forgive us.

In Lal masjid scenario, what ethical responsibilities were there on journalists and what kind of ethical behavior they should show according to your opinion?
Media is a fourth pillar of any independent and advance nation that portrays the true picture of events and happening in front of whole nation. Media is building block of our nation in today era. Because today it’s a period of information explosions and information imperialism. The more you are getting the information the more you can govern anywhere at any platform.

In the history of Pakistan we had faced many issues but the issue of Lal masjid is somewhat extreme and most serious because it was religious issue. Journalist presented the whole of picture of battle field round the clock. The role of journalist was very crucial in presenting the right news at the right time. They carried out their ethical and moral duty by presenting truth and reality. Journalists should be honest, fair and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information.
They demonstrated extreme sense of responsibility and common sense. They brought the truth in front of public as soon as any occurrence or event gets taken place. They showed the unbiased realities without any stereotyping, discrimination and prejudice. Its lies a moral and ethical duty to do reporting without following the subjective approach. Because objectivity is most prerequisite element in any news without the personal stance or privilege. In Lal masjid case media reporter frequently visits the