ETHICAL JOURNALISM IN IRAQ AFTER 2003

Baghdad edition as a model

Abstract

The fact of having Journalism being open to people from different orientations professions, working as journalists requiring protection just to spread corruption, is one of the biggest threats faced by journalism.

Journalists noticed the spread of unprincipled journalists with no journalistic ethics amongst them, they tried to protect their profession from these corrupt outsiders who might annihilate the mighty of journalism. The principles of the journalism profession known as journalistic ethics, are one the most important formulations of the law concluded by the journalists and those concerned by the the profession, they were then published in public in order to prove their professionalism, especially for those who don’t understand anything from journalism, and accuse it for being used only for its own benefit by mocking the audience or just to please those who work for them. Governors and researchers sought equity ..., and it happened that journalism which is considered as an authority of freedom be transformed into a supremist authority, also, the human groups, political parties and social organizations wanted to establish new types of journals and sign contracts with them in order to make a special advancement.