ZAGREB ZAGREB, Jan 19 (Hina) - In reporting on violence on children and minors, the Croatian media often forget ethical norms, thus becoming the new, verbal abuser of unprotected victims, it was concluded at Monday's panel "Media for
Children's Rights." Nowadays, a great part of the Croatian press resorts to any means to expand the reading public, often infringing in this struggle for media space on the intimacy of children and continuing on its pages the already committed violence, said Dragutin Lucic, president of the Croatian Journalists Association. The panel was attended by teachers, judges, psychologists, and other experts in working with children. They stressed that children victims are done the most harm when their full names or photographs appear in the media, ostensibly for accuracy but in truth with the intention to sensationalise. Stances from today's panel will be delivered to the media in the form of a re
ZAGREB, Jan 19 (Hina) - In reporting on violence on children and
minors, the Croatian media often forget ethical norms, thus
becoming the new, verbal abuser of unprotected victims, it was
concluded at Monday's panel "Media for Children's Rights."
Nowadays, a great part of the Croatian press resorts to any means to
expand the reading public, often infringing in this struggle for
media space on the intimacy of children and continuing on its pages
the already committed violence, said Dragutin Lucic, president of
the Croatian Journalists Association.
The panel was attended by teachers, judges, psychologists, and
other experts in working with children. They stressed that children
victims are done the most harm when their full names or photographs
appear in the media, ostensibly for accuracy but in truth with the
intention to sensationalise.
Stances from today's panel will be delivered to the media in the
form of a recommendation.
The panel has been organised as part of the Initiative Against the
Abuse of Children, held this week under the auspices of the Labour
and Social Welfare Ministry.
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