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From an etymological point of view, the word ethics refers to “the branch of philosophy that studies morality, that is, ethics studies good and evil, right and wrong in human behavior.
Journalism, on the other hand, is a tool that society as a whole has to stay informed in an objective, clear, precise and truthful manner about real events that occur at a national and international level.
According to the book “Seeds of journalism. Ethics, information and democracy”, journalistic ethics “is not the same as a catalog of duties in the informative task; It is more of a one-man engine, a desire to do it, a constant search to be better.”
It is not only a code of duty for journalists, but a way to enhance the exercise of the human rights of expression, information, freedom of the press, but also the protection of privacy and the protection of personal data.
After what happened regarding the accusations of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to the media that published the note about the cost of the cancellation of the Airport in Texcoco, Víctor García, professor at the Autonomous University of Mexico, explained that the newspapers are always guided According to official information, "if an autonomous body like the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) issues a statement or a result, we have to base it on that, regardless of whether those involved like it or not."
"There are practically many ways to corroborate the information, first of all they are the official sites or bulletins of the agencies or autonomous bodies themselves, even their own Twitter accounts, because if the person in charge tweets there it means that it is official," he added.
In an interview for Expok, he pointed out that today journalism is also based on transcendental information, that is, unofficial information from people close to the medium who prefer to operate anonymously and that, perhaps, is not considered completely true but is acceptable. to make it known to the population.
"With López Obrador what there is is a media war, in which he uses his morning platform to say what he does not agree with, he is a President who does not like criticism (...) and at the end of the day any newspaper that dares to contradict him is going to be wrong,” added the journalist.
Last Friday, at a press conference, the President of the Republic showed a summary with the notes presented by various media outlets about the ASF report, whose figures due to the cancellation of the Texcoco airport would be three times greater (331 billion of pesos) to what the Federal government had previously reported (100 billion pesos).
A day later, this information would be denied by the autonomous body itself, which retracted it with the premise that the error was due to a “methodological deficiency” in one of its audits which caused a higher calculation of the cost.
In the midst of all this, the Ecuador Mobile Number List annoyance of the federal president was unleashed, who accused journalists, analysts and media of being “at the service of the corrupt regime” and described the notes with the original information as “distorted” that “unleashed a feast among conservatives.” ”.
“These support, all of them, all interest groups, from above, but this has to do with the so-called red circle, with the leadership of political power and economic power, it has nothing to do with the majority of the people of Mexico , the majority of the people of Mexico are honest, hard-working; “It is the elite, the political and economic power in Mexico,” he stated.
Given this, he called “to the owners of the media, the television stations, with all due respect, to put ethics first and not to deceive, not to manipulate, not to distort reality and to have respect for the people.” , and this does not mean subordination, submission to the government, it is loyalty to the people, in this case to the viewers, to those who listen to the radio, read the newspaper, it is respect for the people who do not traffic in freedom of expression, because they do not exercise freedom of expression for just causes, they use it as mechanisms to obtain privileges, so that they act with respect for the people.”
Isaid Mera, journalist from El Financiero, considered that “at the end of the day the media report news, in this case information from the ASF, an institution with really high credibility, it seems to me that it is not an issue of ethics, so we assume it is an audit error.
“A general methodology is to have a fact, verify a fact, contextualize the fact and balance the fact, it is the methodology that we usually use at El Financiero to present a news story.”
In this sense, specialists on the subject assured that these actions are nothing more than a strategy of the President, who undoubtedly exercises his right of reply, and with whom there will be those who agree and those who do not, however, they pointed out as “wearying” to go out in the morning just to defend yourself, which could even be counterproductive.
They agreed that the ethics of the media that published the information is unquestionable. According to Alfredo Lencona, a journalist from Aristegui Noticias, the media is practically based on the information published by the ASF, not on an “inefficient” analysis whose denial occurred a day after (February 22, 2021) of the publication of the informative notes (February 21, 2021).
Isaid Mera added that when there is information from institutions “such as the ASF, the SAT, INE, the Treasury, etc., it is official information and corroborated by the same source, one usually automatically believes it, otherwise it would also become crazy. For example, the SAT releases a report, then I have to check if the information is well done, suddenly it would be crazy and it would take the media five days to provide that information.
Journalism, on the other hand, is a tool that society as a whole has to stay informed in an objective, clear, precise and truthful manner about real events that occur at a national and international level.
According to the book “Seeds of journalism. Ethics, information and democracy”, journalistic ethics “is not the same as a catalog of duties in the informative task; It is more of a one-man engine, a desire to do it, a constant search to be better.”
It is not only a code of duty for journalists, but a way to enhance the exercise of the human rights of expression, information, freedom of the press, but also the protection of privacy and the protection of personal data.
After what happened regarding the accusations of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to the media that published the note about the cost of the cancellation of the Airport in Texcoco, Víctor García, professor at the Autonomous University of Mexico, explained that the newspapers are always guided According to official information, "if an autonomous body like the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) issues a statement or a result, we have to base it on that, regardless of whether those involved like it or not."
"There are practically many ways to corroborate the information, first of all they are the official sites or bulletins of the agencies or autonomous bodies themselves, even their own Twitter accounts, because if the person in charge tweets there it means that it is official," he added.
In an interview for Expok, he pointed out that today journalism is also based on transcendental information, that is, unofficial information from people close to the medium who prefer to operate anonymously and that, perhaps, is not considered completely true but is acceptable. to make it known to the population.
"With López Obrador what there is is a media war, in which he uses his morning platform to say what he does not agree with, he is a President who does not like criticism (...) and at the end of the day any newspaper that dares to contradict him is going to be wrong,” added the journalist.
Last Friday, at a press conference, the President of the Republic showed a summary with the notes presented by various media outlets about the ASF report, whose figures due to the cancellation of the Texcoco airport would be three times greater (331 billion of pesos) to what the Federal government had previously reported (100 billion pesos).
A day later, this information would be denied by the autonomous body itself, which retracted it with the premise that the error was due to a “methodological deficiency” in one of its audits which caused a higher calculation of the cost.
In the midst of all this, the Ecuador Mobile Number List annoyance of the federal president was unleashed, who accused journalists, analysts and media of being “at the service of the corrupt regime” and described the notes with the original information as “distorted” that “unleashed a feast among conservatives.” ”.
“These support, all of them, all interest groups, from above, but this has to do with the so-called red circle, with the leadership of political power and economic power, it has nothing to do with the majority of the people of Mexico , the majority of the people of Mexico are honest, hard-working; “It is the elite, the political and economic power in Mexico,” he stated.
Given this, he called “to the owners of the media, the television stations, with all due respect, to put ethics first and not to deceive, not to manipulate, not to distort reality and to have respect for the people.” , and this does not mean subordination, submission to the government, it is loyalty to the people, in this case to the viewers, to those who listen to the radio, read the newspaper, it is respect for the people who do not traffic in freedom of expression, because they do not exercise freedom of expression for just causes, they use it as mechanisms to obtain privileges, so that they act with respect for the people.”
Isaid Mera, journalist from El Financiero, considered that “at the end of the day the media report news, in this case information from the ASF, an institution with really high credibility, it seems to me that it is not an issue of ethics, so we assume it is an audit error.
“A general methodology is to have a fact, verify a fact, contextualize the fact and balance the fact, it is the methodology that we usually use at El Financiero to present a news story.”
In this sense, specialists on the subject assured that these actions are nothing more than a strategy of the President, who undoubtedly exercises his right of reply, and with whom there will be those who agree and those who do not, however, they pointed out as “wearying” to go out in the morning just to defend yourself, which could even be counterproductive.
They agreed that the ethics of the media that published the information is unquestionable. According to Alfredo Lencona, a journalist from Aristegui Noticias, the media is practically based on the information published by the ASF, not on an “inefficient” analysis whose denial occurred a day after (February 22, 2021) of the publication of the informative notes (February 21, 2021).
Isaid Mera added that when there is information from institutions “such as the ASF, the SAT, INE, the Treasury, etc., it is official information and corroborated by the same source, one usually automatically believes it, otherwise it would also become crazy. For example, the SAT releases a report, then I have to check if the information is well done, suddenly it would be crazy and it would take the media five days to provide that information.