2014/08/24

Drugs abuse: faces before and after; addicted condition

2014/08/22

Código de buenas prácticas de los editores // The Editors' Code of Practice

by: http://www.pcc.org.uk/cop/practice.html

INTRODUCTION

The Editors' Code of Practice is published in full below. You can also download a PDF version here or you can email tonia.milton@pcc.org.uk to be posted a hard copy.

If you are a journalist or editor you can order a wallet-sized version of the Code that is produced on behalf of the industry by the Society of Editors fromoffice@societyofeditors.org

This section also includes an Introduction to the Code, which explains the function of the Code and who is responsible for its development; and a history of the Code, which provides a comprehensive summary of all changes made to the Code since 1991.

The Press Complaints Commission is charged with enforcing the following Code of Practice which was framed by the newspaper and periodical industry and was ratified by the PCC in December 2011 to include changes taking effect from 1 January 2012.

THE EDITORS' CODE

All members of the press have a duty to maintain the highest professional standards. The Code, which includes this preamble and the public interest exceptions below, sets the benchmark for those ethical standards, protecting both the rights of the individual and the public's right to know. It is the cornerstone of the system of self-regulation to which the industry has made a binding commitment.

It is essential that an agreed code be honoured not only to the letter but in the full spirit. It should not be interpreted so narrowly as to compromise its commitment to respect the rights of the individual, nor so broadly that it constitutes an unnecessary interference with freedom of expression or prevents publication in the public interest.

It is the responsibility of editors and publishers to apply the Code to editorial material in both printed and online versions of publications. They should take care to ensure it is observed rigorously by all editorial staff and external contributors, including non-journalists, in printed and online versions of publications.

Editors should co-operate swiftly with the Press Complaints Commission in the resolution of complaints. Any publication judged to have breached the Code must publish the adjudication in full and with due prominence agreed by the Commission's Director, including headline reference to the PCC.

1	Accuracy
	i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information, including pictures. ii) A significant inaccuracy, misleading statement or distortion once recognised must be corrected, promptly and with due prominence, and - where appropriate - an apology published. In cases involving the Commission, prominence should be agreed with the PCC in advance. iii) The Press, whilst free to be partisan, must distinguish clearly between comment, conjecture and fact. iv) A publication must report fairly and accurately the outcome of an action for defamation to which it has been a party, unless an agreed settlement states otherwise, or an agreed statement is published.
2	Opportunity to reply
	A fair opportunity for reply to inaccuracies must be given when reasonably called for.
3	*Privacy
	i) Everyone is entitled to respect for his or her private and family life, home, health and correspondence, including digital communications. ii) Editors will be expected to justify intrusions into any individual's private life without consent. Account will be taken of the complainant's own public disclosures of information. iii) It is unacceptable to photograph individuals in private places without their consent. Note - Private places are public or private property where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy.
4	*Harassment
	i) Journalists must not engage in intimidation, harassment or persistent pursuit. ii) They must not persist in questioning, telephoning, pursuing or photographing individuals once asked to desist; nor remain on their property when asked to leave and must not follow them. If requested, they must identify themselves and whom they represent. iii) Editors must ensure these principles are observed by those working for them and take care not to use non-compliant material from other sources.
5	Intrusion into grief or shock
	i) In cases involving personal grief or shock, enquiries and approaches must be made with sympathy and discretion and publication handled sensitively. This should not restrict the right to report legal proceedings, such as inquests. *ii) When reporting suicide, care should be taken to avoid excessive detail about the method used.
6	*Children
	i) Young people should be free to complete their time at school without unnecessary intrusion. ii) A child under 16 must not be interviewed or photographed on issues involving their own or another child’s welfare unless a custodial parent or similarly responsible adult consents. iii) Pupils must not be approached or photographed at school without the permission of the school authorities. iv) Minors must not be paid for material involving children’s welfare, nor parents or guardians for material about their children or wards, unless it is clearly in the child's interest. v) Editors must not use the fame, notoriety or position of a parent or guardian as sole justification for publishing details of a child’s private life.
7	*Children in sex cases
	1. The press must not, even if legally free to do so, identify children under 16 who are victims or witnesses in cases involving sex offences. 2. In any press report of a case involving a sexual offence against a child - i) The child must not be identified. ii) The adult may be identified. iii) The word "incest" must not be used where a child victim might be identified. iv) Care must be taken that nothing in the report implies the relationship between the accused and the child.
8	*Hospitals
	i) Journalists must identify themselves and obtain permission from a responsible executive before entering non-public areas of hospitals or similar institutions to pursue enquiries. ii) The restrictions on intruding into privacy are particularly relevant to enquiries about individuals in hospitals or similar institutions.
9	*Reporting of Crime
	(i) Relatives or friends of persons convicted or accused of crime should not generally be identified without their consent, unless they are genuinely relevant to the story. (ii) Particular regard should be paid to the potentially vulnerable position of children who witness, or are victims of, crime. This should not restrict the right to report legal proceedings.
10	*Clandestine devices and subterfuge
	i) The press must not seek to obtain or publish material acquired by using hidden cameras or clandestine listening devices; or by intercepting private or mobile telephone calls, messages or emails; or by the unauthorised removal of documents or photographs; or by accessing digitally-held private information without consent. ii) Engaging in misrepresentation or subterfuge, including by agents or intermediaries, can generally be justified only in the public interest and then only when the material cannot be obtained by other means.
11	Victims of sexual assault
	The press must not identify victims of sexual assault or publish material likely to contribute to such identification unless there is adequate justification and they are legally free to do so.
12	Discrimination
	i) The press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual's race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability. ii) Details of an individual's race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental illness or disability must be avoided unless genuinely relevant to the story.
13	Financial journalism
	i) Even where the law does not prohibit it, journalists must not use for their own profit financial information they receive in advance of its general publication, nor should they pass such information to others. ii) They must not write about shares or securities in whose performance they know that they or their close families have a significant financial interest without disclosing the interest to the editor or financial editor. iii) They must not buy or sell, either directly or through nominees or agents, shares or securities about which they have written recently or about which they intend to write in the near future.
14	Confidential sources
	Journalists have a moral obligation to protect confidential sources of information.
15	Witness payments in criminal trials
	i) No payment or offer of payment to a witness - or any person who may reasonably be expected to be called as a witness - should be made in any case once proceedings are active as defined by the Contempt of Court Act 1981. This prohibition lasts until the suspect has been freed unconditionally by police without charge or bail or the proceedings are otherwise discontinued; or has entered a guilty plea to the court; or, in the event of a not guilty plea, the court has announced its verdict. ii) Where proceedings are not yet active but are likely and foreseeable, editors must not make or offer payment to any person who may reasonably be expected to be called as a witness, unless the information concerned ought demonstrably to be published in the public interest and there is an over-riding need to make or promise payment for this to be done; and all reasonable steps have been taken to ensure no financial dealings influence the evidence those witnesses give. In no circumstances should such payment be conditional on the outcome of a trial. iii) Any payment or offer of payment made to a person later cited to give evidence in proceedings must be disclosed to the prosecution and defence. The witness must be advised of this requirement.
16	*Payment to criminals
	i) Payment or offers of payment for stories, pictures or information, which seek to exploit a particular crime or to glorify or glamorise crime in general, must not be made directly or via agents to convicted or confessed criminals or to their associates – who may include family, friends and colleagues. ii) Editors invoking the public interest to justify payment or offers would need to demonstrate that there was good reason to believe the public interest would be served. If, despite payment, no public interest emerged, then the material should not be published.
THE PUBLIC INTEREST There may be exceptions to the clauses marked * where they can be demonstrated to be in the public interest. 1. The public interest includes, but is not confined to: i) Detecting or exposing crime or serious impropriety. ii) Protecting public health and safety. iii) Preventing the public from being misled by an action or statement of an individual or organisation. 2. There is a public interest in freedom of expression itself. 3. Whenever the public interest is invoked, the PCC will require editors to demonstrate fully that they reasonably believed that publication, or journalistic activity undertaken with a view to publication, would be in the public interest and how, and with whom, that was established at the time. 4. The PCC will consider the extent to which material is already in the public domain, or will become so. 5. In cases involving children under 16, editors must demonstrate an exceptional public interest to over-ride the normally paramount interest of the child.

Copyright © 2012 The Press Standards Board of Finance Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of the Editors' Code of Practice may be reproduced without the prior written permission of The Press Standards Board of Finance Ltd.

2014/08/07

hasta las guerras tienen un limite #FARC #ELN

http://www.lapatria.com/politica/fin-del-conflicto-armado-principal-reto-de-santos-111901

2014/08/06

Ayudemos a La Virginia (1) #LaVirginia

Ayudemos a La Virginia (1)

por @orlandoparrag ciberplural@gmail.com

“El presupuesto de publicidad de Bogotá equivale al presupuesto de toda la alcaldía de Pereira en un año” le oí hace poco a una alta funcionaria de la alcaldía…qué le digo yo cuando el presupuesto de libre inversión a disposición del alcalde de La Virginia es el que tiene el alcalde de Pereira para un solo contrato: alrededor de 600 millones de pesos. La pulga, el caballo, el elefante…

Si creo que hay dos Risaraldas. Y creo que la puerta para la Risaralda del occidente es La Virginia. Todas las dificultades que viven nuestros municipios son visibles allí. ¿Sabía usted que en los últimos años se destruyeron cerca de siete mil empleos en ese municipio?...Siete mil!...es decir cerca de siete mil familias que se quedaron sin ingresos!...un promedio de 21 mil personas, mujeres, niños, hombres, ancianos que se quedaron sin ingreso básico de sobrevivencia. Un nido de cultivo para cualquier situación: los dolores, las tragedias humanas, florecen en medio de las tensiones de la pobreza y la miseria.

Para qué hablar de los problemas de La Virginia… si son los mismos de Cartago, de Belalcázar, de Andes, de Alcalá, de…son municipios quebrados, quebrados económicamente, quebrados socialmente, quebrados políticamente, quebrados culturalmente…¿qué se puede esperar entonces en ese escenario?...¿que se dediquen al paraíso en el que viven algunos en Pereira, Manizales, Armenia, Cali…Bogotá…Miami, Nueva York?...¡no seamos imbéciles!.

¿Cómo ha sobrevivido entonces ese municipio y otros de Risaralda, del Norte del Valle, del Occidente de Caldas, del Sur de Antioquia, del Quindío, a semejante crisis?...por la combinación de economías informales e ilegales. Dejemos de echarnos cuentos. Sin esa combinación de dineros informales e ilegales con todas sus consecuencias negativas, el infierno sería peor.

Y claro, han sobrevivido por esa actitud colombiana de salir adelante, pase lo que pase. Esa variable en el post conflicto va a desaparecer. En el post conflicto, la máquina del estado se va a dirigir a combatir esas expresiones ilegales. Esa economía ilegal. ¿y entonces?...¿Ni fuentes de ingresos legales formales? ¿ni fuentes de ingresos ilegales informales?...¿de qué van a vivir estos municipios devorados por la globalización, devorados por la absoluta incapacidad de nuestra dirigencia pública y privada, nacional y local, para avanzar en procesos de glo – localización que nos posicionen en un mundo que hace rato nos avasalla?...¿jodidos? ¿condenados a la miseria?...¿condenados a la clientela de la dependencia de las sobras que el estado entrega a través de los sisben y similares?...¿es justo?...

(publicada en http://www.latarde.com/opinion/columnistas/137316-ayudemos-a-la-virginia-1 )

Hay que entender el #espacio

Hay que entender el espacio

Por @orlandoparrag ciberplural@gmail.com

“… la esencia es comprender que las ciudades son estructuras sociales, pero, especialmente, que quienes las habitamos esperamos comprenderlas, esperamos que haya unos símbolos que reflejen nuestros valores y creencias; pero olvidamos que existen ene variables que hacen que cada persona o grupo posea una concepción diferente: así, la forma en que cada uno ve los andenes nunca es la misma.

Y ese olvido es el responsable del arrinconamiento en el diseño o de reivindicar sólo ciertos intereses particulares, como sucedió con la calle de la Fundación, donde se vino a saber qué querían –y quieren– realmente miles de ciudadanos mucho después: su peatonalización.

‘En el diseño esto mismo ha llevado a una situación ‘patológica’, en la que se emplean los símbolos personales e idiosincráticos de los diseñadores, símbolos que en absoluto coinciden con las asociaciones y los símbolos del público’ (Rapoport, 1974, p. 30).

Hay que entender el espacio –incluido el público– según varias dimensiones.

*Para mí, la primera de ellas es la cultural: el hábito, las costumbres (¿la ideológica, la conductual?);

*Luego está la social (sí, claro: según las clases sociales, los estratos sociales, se aborda de diversa forma el espacio);

*Posteriormente, la sicológica (el espacio tiene abordajes sicológicos diversos: un sitio que para alguien puede ser “lúdico” para otro puede ser “tenebroso”;

*Después, la temporal, la histórica (todo espacio tiene su historia, especialmente su historia de usos o “antiusos”, según cómo se vea, dependiendo de la dimensión donde se esté); y,

*Finalmente, los límites territoriales (¿has pensado que tu cama tiene límites, como tu cuarto, tu casa, tu…? ¿Y has pensado, jugando con las otras dimensiones, cómo se entrelazan esos límites psicológicos con el espacio público?).

Lo anterior quiere decir que cuando vemos a los actores mencionados en un andén de un centro o subcentro –concurrido o deshabitado–, se están vivenciando, imperceptiblemente, dimensiones o variables culturales, sociales, sicológicas, históricas, territoriales. Como dice Soja, “todo se junta... la subjetividad y la objetividad, lo abstracto y lo concreto, lo real y lo imaginado, lo cognoscible y lo inimaginable, lo repetitivo y el diferencial, estructura y agencia, la mente y el cuerpo, la conciencia y el inconsciente, la disciplina y lo transdisciplinario, la vida cotidiana y la historia sin fin” (Soja, 1996).

¿Somos conscientes de todo ello? En general, creo que no; simplemente, usamos o no usamos ese andén…” (*)

(*) Apartes del ensayo Espacio, Comercio en calle y…¿Ciudadanía?...para el libro Espacios Públicos Ordenados de la ESAP pronto en aparecer)

Ese #andén

Ese andén

Por @orlandoparrag ciberplural@gmail.com

… “los pereiranos llevamos más de 30 años respondiendo de manera habitual, por costumbre, al abuso del espacio público que se hace en los andenes de la octava entre 13 y 19 (Quien escribe fue vendedor en el almacén de Las 3 BBB cuando era adolescente -1982/83- durante temporadas decembrinas, y por lo tanto puede afirmar que el caos sigue siendo el mismo…¡32 años después!.). Allí caben pocos ejercicios racionales, poca lógica, se actúa casi que mecánicamente: es un modo de vida, y la vida, generalmente, poco se “piensa”; se vive.

Proshansky nos ayuda. Él plantea que hay interacciones persona-entorno y factores físicos y sociales. Allí donde vemos –o mejor: “no vemos”– la cotidianidad, el día a día, él llama la atención sobre la interrelación entre una calle oscura y una calle luminosa, entre una limpia y una sucia, y entre quienes están en cada uno de esos espacios de manera estacionaria, semiestacionaria, ambulante, transeúnte, desde un automóvil…

Asimismo, el autor habla de

-las características del lugar (el conjunto del escenario físico): luz, temperatura, espacio disponible, etc.;

-de los componentes del entorno social: interacciones, roles sociales, etc. y

-de la adaptabilidad a dicho entorno: competencias y habilidades ambientales ([1]).

Hagamos el ejercicio: analicemos un andén cualquiera, en un centro o subcentro, incluso de un barrio o de una vereda. Lo primero que tenemos que entender es que, así no lo veamos, allí en ese sitio, hay actividades, normas, roles sociales, individuales y colectivos; es decir, hay un contenido, un campo social, hay significados funcionales y significados motivacionales.

Ahora bien, estamos hablando de personas que de manera estacionaria, semiestacionaria, ambulante, transeúnte, desde un auto-móvil… habitan ese espacio. Estamos entrando, entonces, en la complejidad que algunos autores limitan a quienes ocupan dicho lugar. No obstante, para nosotros esa complejidad es una “multicomplejidad”, pues cada uno de esos niveles de uso tiene una interpretación, un significado diferente basado en la forma de relacionarse con ese espacio público, con ese andén”…

(Apartes del ensayo “Espacio, Comercio en calle y…¿Ciudadanía?”...para el libro Espacios Públicos Ordenados de la ESAP pronto en aparecer)

(1)http://www.ub.edu/escult/valera/cap1.htm

( Publicada en http://www.latarde.com/opinion/columnistas/136652-ese-anden)

2014/08/24

Drugs abuse: faces before and after; addicted condition

2014/08/22

Código de buenas prácticas de los editores // The Editors' Code of Practice

2014/08/07

hasta las guerras tienen un limite #FARC #ELN

TEMAS DESTACADOS

Fin del conflicto armado, principal reto de Santos

El tiempo de las víctimas

Las Farc, un desastre político

Comisión histórica

Otras propuestas de las víctimas