Abstract:
A journalist competence as intended in the Press Council Regulation is
interpreted as knowledge capability without affirmation for journalists
who have knowledge of certain scientific disciplines. The meaning is all
journalists from any discipline may be recognized as journalists who have
the competence to apply the presumption of innocence in reporting. This
arrangement in journalistic practice, the press often appears' 'judgmental'
in the news because the use of the terms is often interpreted the same,
even though the law holds very different meanings, such as the suspect is
written as the perpetrator, released is written as free, not accepted is
written as rejected, sentenced to trial is written as the judge free it. To
prevent the violation of the presumption of innocence principle in
reporting, the regulation of journalists' competencies must be emphasized
from intellectual abilities and general knowledge to legal knowledge. The
affirmation is directly correlated with the news object which is in the
realm of law as a function of the press that is obliged to respect the
presumption of innocence principl
