Discuss (a) Right of reply

The profession's discipline — the Code of Journalistic Conduct (the Press Council's code — Unit 8.2.2's full treatment), the core duties: Truth and accuracy: the fact's verification before publication; the prompt correction of error (the correction-column's ethics); Independence: the journalist's freedom from the interests — bribes, favours, and the undisclosed conflicts disclosed or avoided; Fairness: the right of reply — the subject's side heard before the damaging story; the hearing's discipline; Privacy's respect: the private grief's restraint — intrusion's limits (4.2 below); Identification's discipline: the sexual-offence victim's and the juvenile's non-identification; the accused's presumption of innocence (the "alleged" word's ethics — the trial-by-media's antidote, Unit 7's sub judice); No plagiarism: the source's credit (Unit 5's copyright ethics face); The sensitivities: communal and conflict reporting without hate's amplification (Unit 9's hate- speech link). The professionalism's architecture (the exam's frame): self-regulation (the newsroom's own standards) → co-regulation (the Press Council's code and sanctions — Unit 8) → the law's outer boundary (the Criminal Code's offences, the privacy and defamation liability — Units 2.4, 9). Professionalism earns the press its freedom; the code is freedom's price.