Ethical Constraints

Code of Practice
Code of practice is a set of written rules that explains how people that work in a particular enviroment for there profession should behave. It has a set of guidelines and regulations that should be followed by members of the job, trade, occupation and organizatoin, it normally doesnt not have the force of law.

There are many types of ethical isues that you can have when working in the creative media industry.

Ethical Issues

• Representation of age, gender, race, disability and religion. -
• Protecting under 18's.
• Using off the record information.
• Power to influence public opinion.
• interviewing vulnerable people or children.
• Intruding on indivividuals privacy.
• Anything that could cause offence or harm.

 Ethical Constraints

• Working Within accepted norms of society.
• What is right or wrong way to behave.

These two are both covered by self regulating industry Codes.

Ethical

There are many ethical constraints in radio that everyone in the radio industry needs to be aware of. This is so that any of the content in the show will not offend or upset anyone such as the audience of the radio station. The constraints can limit your production depending on the content because anything that can offend someone will have to be taken out and or changed. The target audience must be kept in mind because some things may not offend younger people but may with the older generation. The language on the show must be kept to a minimal as some people get offended really easily. When something is said on the radio and it does offend people, people will then ring and complain. When this happens the presenter or whoever has put it on the radio will be spoken to but if it was really bad and you’re got a lot of complaints they could even lose their job. You always have to treat your listeners with respect, as you always have to be polite and show them respect. Especially when you are on the phone to someone on the radio as you have to be polite to them and ask them not to swear. You have to make sure that the music that you put on your radio will suit your audience for the show, because sometimes this can also offend people because of some of the words in certain songs. Or play a wide variety of music so it will make everyone happy. You have to ensure that you are working within the accepted social norms when working in Radio.