Ethics
Ethics is the moral principles that define how a person or group acts or the conductivity of an activity.
Codes of practice
Codes of practice are a set of written regulations issued by a professional association or an official body that explains how people in a work place should behave. In terms of shows and films shown on the BBC channel they have top hold a sort of image where they don't show things such as profanity, nudity, etc at least before the watershed which would be unethical to show since during the day children watch television and if things like profanity, nudity etc are shown on television it could influence young children which would not give the BBC a good representation and they get complains from parents.
An example of a show where these ethical codes of practices need to be upheld is on the news and having different ethnic news reporters. 50 years ago on the news people would usually only see white news reporters on television and would never have seen a different ethnic news reporter such as black, asian, muslim etc. However nowadays it is possible to see reporters with different ethnic backgrounds since it has been a rising issue and it has now been heard people now are starting to be treated equally and fairly no matter what their race, age etc but it is still an issue but its still being worked on.
My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
The British documentary series My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding is broadcasted on channel 4 and they explore the lives of several Irish travellers and they unite one of their family members in marriage. In this show the girls that are getting married and they have a specific way of dressing and acting that audiences may find unethical. For example there are girls on the show that are about 8 years old and they have a full face of make up on and they are parading around in inappropriate clothing. This could be seen unethical to some viewers because it may send out a message to other people that watch the show that the parents of those children are letting them do that on television. However this could be because they live different life styles to those families on the show it is seen as normal for them but for some people that are watching they may thinks it's completely unethical because they dress differently and it isn't normal to them. Also children that may watch the show may be influenced to dress like that since children are write naive and don't really know what's right and whats wrong. Also the girls that are getting married are usually still teenagers usually about the age of 16 and to their wedding they wear extremely huge and puffy wedding dresses.
Emerging Social Concerns
An emerging social concern example is cyber bullying especially for children and teenagers. It is up to news broadcasters, newspapers etc to make people are of this especially parents because children and teenagers tend to keep this type information from their parents so that they do not worry or 'make the situation worse' but that is not what children and teenagers should be doing because it could effect them physically and emotionally. This is an ethical obligation for news broadcasters to inform their audience on what is happening so that parents are aware and can search for signs that this may be happening to their child.
Bibliography
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/site/code_of_practice.pdf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/introduction/intro_1.shtml
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