Journalism in Kazakhstan

Ethics…The most important and valuable thing in our life is ethics, which depends from different factors, such as social surroundings, priorities and so on. Ethics follow us everywhere, so the question is should we follow it? Journalists all over the world faced ethical problems everyday and every time. And my research topic is whether journalists in Kazakhstan follow ethical issues and have the press pressure or dependence from government.
Before people became journalist they chose whether follow ethical issues or not and nowadays the problem is that only minority chose right decision. In Kazakhstan press first what young journalist think is how to get money. First trouble is taking bribes and money for writing an article, which do not satisfy the requirements of ethics. Interviewing workers of “Огни Алатау ”newspapers they do not even try to make no secret of the fact of taking money from business companies and sometimes from government staff. For the question why journalists allows themselves to break the law, there were a lot of answers, like “Our salary do not suit us” or “Every body make such things” and a lot of saying which are showing displeasure of their works. So, another issue arises, what was the reason of choosing this profession? As one famous philosopher said that never blame others, first of all look at yourself.
Second problem is that press in Kazakhstan depend from government, even if there are such kinds of newspapers, which are opposition, which is not good too. The problem of those newspapers is that objectivity, that the main point of ethics is absent. So, the main press all time and fully support Kazakhstan government. As one reporter told, “We do not want to loose our job, thus it is our responsibility to write as administration want ”. And there was survey which shows that the most dangerous topic that journalists afraid to concern is politics. What journalists should do, during all life to keep mum or to struggle for freedom? And all workers understand that one could not do anything alone.
One more thing that press has dependence not only from government, but also from big companies, which could only call and journalists will publish everything what they want, of course, again for money. But fortunately, by degrees press began to release from pressure of business. It is really need a time to become free from different spheres.
The journalists all over the world have a set of rules or ethics, which they should follow. In Kazakhstan press there are different opinions, which depend from in what newspaper or channel person works. For instant, reporter from newspaper “Эксклюзив” Naidenova Lidiya told that there is no limit for their articles; they could write what ever wants. When in “Казахстанская Правда” strict rules, and not every article will be published without editor’s approval. The same situation is at television stations. But at the radio stations were mention that reporters are very lazy, all information, news, fact they get from the Internet, so at every radio you can hear the same information. And there are no differences between radio, the same program and news. “People in any case will listen radio stations, they even do not cares about what wireless to put on”.
In summary, majority of Kazakhstan journalist are satisfied with their works, despite of problems, which they faces. A lot of them try to follow ethical issues and be independent. The Kazakhstan press in the solving and improving way, because Kazakhstan is young developing country and it need more time to get to world standards.