The Eighth Commandment: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
What ethical responsibilities are connected with the communications media?
Media producers have a responsibility toward media consumers. Above all they must truthfully inform. In both the gathering and the publication of real news, the rights and dignity of individuals must be observed.
The means of social communication should contribute to the establishment of justice, freedom, and solidarity in the world. In actual fact, the media are not uncommonly used as weapons in ideological conflict, or else, in a quest for higher ratings, all ethical regulation of the content is abandoned and the media are turned into instruments for seducing people and making them dependent. (YOUCAT question 459)
Dig Deeper: CCC section (2492-2495) and other references here.
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