Media houses called upon to improve standard of reporting
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| Rev. Fr. Isaiah Phillip, speaking at the National Consultation on the Economy (photo by Erasmus Williams) |
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, NOVEMBER 2ND 2007 (CUOPM) – Media houses in St. Kitts and Nevis have been called upon to improve their standard of reporting and avoid law suits for libel and slander.
Anglican priest Rev. Father Isaiah Phillip, delivering the Invocation at the National Consultation on the Economy also called on the media to be guided by strong ethical guidelines.
“The St. Kitts and Nevis population is not only better educated, but much more critical and their capacity for constructive dialogue with each other and with the issues of national importance, have been vastly improved,” Rev. Phillip told some 300 participants from government, business and non-governmental organisations including several media houses.
“You need to follow the government’s lead and create systematic avenues for the populace to offer constructive ideas for the general improvement of your programming and our nation,” said Rev. Phillip.
He said it was also time for local media houses “to put very strong ethical guidelines in place to develop and improve the standards of reporting as well as to give the public recourse to redress for unfair and or inaccurate reporting without having to clog up our judicial system with issues that the community can manage in an acceptable and mutually satisfactory fashion.”~~Adz:Right~~
