BG: Report on the activity of the Journalistic Ethics Commission
by Rayna NikolovaIn 2015, the Ethics Commission for Journalistic Ethics was approached by means of 42 claims (17 of them were well-grounded) for violations of the Ethics Code of the Bulgarian Media (EC), namely of Art. 2.5. EC – ‘Discrimination’ which states:
2.5.1. By paying respect to everyone’s right to live a safe and secure life we are not going to publish materials instigating and encouraging hatred, violence and all forms of discrimination.
2.5.2. We are not going to indicate the racial, religious, ethnical belonging, sexual orientation, mental and physical state if these facts were not of great significance for…
