A good human being is a good journalist too

“Better right than first!”
There are some journalists that are capable to do everything to sell themselves, even if this would mean to hurt, or to harm some other people. The journalists have a great power in they’re hands, the power of words, but they should be very careful of the way they’re using it and against who. Not just once the sensational took place to the reality just because the reporters wanted to sell better the newspaper, or to have “great” news on television, but this is not right and the public opinion knows that. People will not forget so easy big mistakes and they will change the newspaper, or the channel.
The job of a journalist is to inform the public not to militate against or for something, they have to be neutrals, because if they’re not, this means that they are no longer journalist, no longer impartial and they should leave this job and do something else.
In the case of the reporter Sonia Nazario, I think that she wanted so much to have a great story, a sensational story, so she could sell it better, that she forgot about those poor little children who were expecting some help from her, she forgot about her mission there, she was selfish. I don’t know if she should’ve just write about them or she could help them someway, but I’m sure that if I was there and I could’ve done that I would’ve helped them in a way or another. Another big mistake of her was that she captured on camera minors without a written permission from their parents and put those kids in a bad situation, she harmed them, obsessed of capturing good clips and a good story of them.
There are some codes or guides that journalists from everywhere should respect. The first of them I’m thinking now is the “BBC Style Guide”, and I’m asking myself how they can do it, respect as much as is possible this guide which is like a Bible for them. They are consulting it every time they are not sure about something. The BBC News are the most impartial and accurate ones and this is because they have two big quotes they’re using in all their news: a) Better right than first!” and b) “Check, check and recheck!”.
In Romania there is a “Deontological Code” made by The Independent Journalists Center, in 2004, that we, the Romanian journalists should read from time to time and try to respect it as much as is possible, because by doing that we respect the human rights too. I think that news in Romania are based more on sensational details than in pure accurate and impartial information, we don’t have an equilibrium, the press if governed by political interests. We should learn more about BBC way of writing, because even if I’m sure there not the best, there are certainly better than a lot of other journalists in the whole world. And all the reporters that are breaking the essential human rights laws and codes should be penalized every time they are doing it, until they will respect them.