The challenges of professional responsibility in the Iraqi press after April 2003 (Draft charter to spare journalists the dangers of engaging in incitement to violence and armed conflict)

Abstract

Over the past years, the Iraqi press has gone through its most difficult and complicated circumstances. It has faced unprecedented challenges for its employees. Which requires a scientific pause that puts things in perspective and avoids the loss of more opportunities and costly sacrifices. Among other things, journalists should be invited to stick to their professional responsibilities and draw up a binding charter that avoids the risk of slipping into causing or participating. In any form, in armed conflicts or using their pens to spread new forms of hatred and exclusion. At a time when their country needs a climate of tolerance and reconciliation that can be achieved only by adhering to the rules of professional ethics based on balance, fairness, accuracy and objectivity. As well as to prevent the threat of their institutions to close due to the weight of financial compensation required in cases against newspapers departments or some of the workers.
In this paper, we propose a draft charter that responds to the benefits of all press components and represents a common denominator between them. In our view, the drafting of a charter of this kind, which involves such a function, can not be limited to journalists. It is a charter divided into sections that constitute the professional side. On one side of it. The other parts are divided between political, security, government and legislative and executive, and each part of these parts, which we have described and requirements, a role in enhancing the presence and effectiveness of this charter.
The modest attempts that have been made without success have lacked the awareness of this interaction between the parts of our project, which aims to instill a spirit of professional responsibility and to exclude journalists from the dangers of engaging in incitement to violence and armed conflict. These attempts, which were characterized by a quick nature, also limited or neutralized the professional elements, ignoring the fact that the journalistic profession in Iraq was subjected to systematic threats that were lost in a stage of blind bloody violence. The fundamentals of stability were the separation of self, partisan, sectarian and regional prejudices Her media messages.
In light of the above, the draft of this charter, which is based on professional standards and traditions, draws on the Iraqi experience, its interventions and difficulties, thus contributing to ending the crisis of estrangement between the profession and reality based on sufficient knowledge of what is happening in our environment. On the one hand, and on the mechanisms and organizations formed by the other after April 2003. The second section is devoted to explain the draft Charter, which we described first. It aims to spread professional responsibility based on objective challenges in Iraq.
The proposed project was keen to move away from the floating theoretical ideas to present a set of recommendations, observations and suggestions that are applicable to achieve the desired objective.
As the researcher puts these perceptions, he aspires to enrich them through discussions and studies from all concerned parties to the problem, and to formulate a comprehensive vision for the treatment and the establishment of professional policies based on the work of the Iraqi press in the future.