Blog Assignment #3: Ethics and Freedom of the Press -- James B.

1.What freedoms should journalists have? Why?
Journalists have the freedom to make interview, to have protection and to have a big amount of money that they get. Public interest guides all Journalists decisions.

2.Should journalistic freedom be unlimited?
Yes, because if there are many crimes so there are many media, journalists that covered the story so they need the rights to protect their freedom, to broadcast or publish the story for the people so they know what happens and all media are important to gather information.
3.What responsibilities go with these freedoms?
They are responsible for the story that they take or publish because some crimes has to be private that they can’t publish or taking picture because of the privacy of the family, and they are responsible not to tell the whole story if it’s a big crime.
4.What are some examples of how journalistic freedom has been violated, either in Canada or abroad?
They were killed, arrested, kidnapped, physically attacked or threaten, media censored, journalists fled their country, bloggers and netizens arrested, physically attacked, countries affected by Internet censorship by criminal gangs, armed groups, religious organization or state agents
5.How free do you think that the press is free in Canada? In your community? In your school? Explain.
In Canada, there is no news about the journalist killed or arrested because Canada respect all the Journalists and our community, they had a freedom to interview, take a picture or to publish it but they had to know the principles or rules that they always remember. In our school, we had journalism subject that learn about the techniques or important things that we used if we are going to be a journalists and sometimes we had a activities to interview other students or teachers but we don’t need to have a permit that we are going to interview someone so we have a freedoms to do that.