Legal and Moral

Legal and moral

To make sure that in my newspaper I do not offend anyone by being racist so I have to make sure that my article doesn’t contain any racial comments that could offend people also it would be seen as racist if I was to talk about the Asian culture in a bad way so I have to word my words differently and make sure that nothing said in the article is going to offend anyone because then my article will be seen as being a bad article to some.

In my newspaper article my article may come across as being sexist because I am mainly only talking about girls so I have to make sure that somewhere in my article I mention that boys can also wear make-up because there is also going to be young boys that wear make-up.

Factual programmes or items or portrayals of factual matters must not materially mislead the audience. (Note to Rule 2.2: News is regulated under Section five of the Code.)

When I write up my article I have to make sure that I don’t write anything that will mislead people into thinking that I am being offensive so I will not offend any of the people that are reading my article.

 Meaning of "life-changing":

Life-changing advice includes direct advice for individuals upon which they could reasonably act or rely about health, finance, employment or relationships.

 

In my article it is about giving advice to young people that can change the way they think forever this means that I have to make sure that that I am not making up any fake facts just to make them change the way they think.

 

Dealing fairly with contributors and obtaining informed consent

7.2    Broadcasters and programme makers should normally be fair in their dealings with potential contributors to programmes unless, exceptionally, it is justified to do otherwise.

 

As before my article has to be fair and I have to write like I understand what teenagers are going through because it is very easy for me to say ‘stop wearing make-up’ because then no one will take in what the article is really about also I have to make sure that I include boys as well to make it fair because many boys are starting to wear make-up to feel better about themselves and not a lot of articles talk about how boys wear make-up.

 

Opportunity to contribute and proper consideration of facts

7.9    Before broadcasting a factual programme, including programmes examining past events, broadcasters should take reasonable care to satisfy themselves that:

 

Before I write my article I have done a lot of research about young teenagers wearing make-up and wear it all came from I have found facts and statements that will help to give advice to young people also I do not want to put in anything that won’t be true because people can easily check it and if they find out its fake then they won’t bother taking in the article or even reading it.