Legal and moral approach over press offences in western democracies in romania

AuthorCristina Anca Paiusescu
PositionFaculty of Political Sciences, University, Bucharest - Romania
Pages135-139
AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, www.juridicalj ournal.univagora.ro
ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677
No. 3 (2013), pp. 135-139
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LEGAL AND MORAL APPROACH OVER PRESS OFFENCES IN
WESTERN DEMOCRACIES IN ROMANIA
C. A. Piuescu
Cristina-Anca Piuescu
Faculty of Political Sciences
“Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, Bucharest, Romania
*Correspondence: Cristina Anca Piuescu, “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, 176
Splaiul Unirii St., 4 District, Bucharest, Romania
E-mail: ancamili@yahoo.com
Abstract
The essence of a democracy consists of the political rights of its citizens of their
ability to influence political decision, to challenge and to participate directly in the
management of the state. How it could all this happen without a free press to express the level
of externalization of thoughts and ideas of freedom of expression of public opinion. The press
is one of the forms of expression of public opinion and in terms of its functions, the average is
of major importance for society as a whole and for the individuals who compose it. However,
it is imperative to create moral and legal rules that guide the work of journalists, to avoid
press offenses. They are created both by the state and journalists, themselves, by
selfreglementation.
Keywords: press-freedom, press-democracy, legal limits, selfreglementation
Introduction
World Democracies faces a number of various challenges, both inside and outside
problems which have to cope with, starting on the level of political representation, the
problem of technocracy, the matter of oligarchy within powerful parties, to the institutional
problems. A new challenge for western democracies is the pressure coming from the
increasing demands for recognition of various types of human rights and the increasing
requirement of legalization of relationships that once belonged to the sphere of “immorality”.
1. The relationship between law, morality and ethics in the media
For the media, the triad law - morality – ethics has an unique connotation and its
casting is presenting as an intractable paradox
1
. Although the media is governing our lives
and they are indispensable public service, the journalists hardly accept, or reject the idea legal
constraint in their profession, some journalists even ignoring the rules of morality or ethics.
Because the term “ethics” often irritates media professionals and because a minimum
consensus of professional conduct is required, there is a new concept created for them -
quality control a concept that covers both ethics, morality, professional ethics within the
existing legal frame of the media
2
. A practitioner is virtuous as an ideal professional purposes
and may become a successful practitioner, but this often means to win badly. He focuses on
excellence and the customer and too little on money and his image.
1
D. T. Popa, Dreptul comunicrii, Norma Publishing House, Bucharest, 1 999, p. 49.
2
Idem.

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