Professional rules and practices in force in the regional daily press in France

    A newspaper keeps in close contact with its readers and is aware of its
    responsibilities to them. It seems to it that in reporting events, a fact is
    distinguished from a comment.

    1 Sobriety and attention to detail: only proven and accurate stories should
    be published. Newspapers credibility turns on its ability to print proven
    and accurate news. The printing of information that has been checked is
    the mark of a newspaper’s sobriety, meticulousness and good faith. Rumors
    should not be encouraged. A newspaper does everything it can to discourage
    the spreading of a rumor, even if other media have already carried it.
    2 Respect for the individual: a newspaper should inform without without inciting
    discrimination, racism or violence. It abides strictly by the laws which ban
    incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence against a person or persons on
    account of their origins or their belonging or not to a specific ethnic group,
    nation, race, religion. Discrimination is defined as arousing in the reader feeling
    of separateness based on suspicious, hostility or distaste. Hatred means
    transforming hostility towards someone into a desire to harm them because of
    their membership or not of an ethnic group or nation. Violence includes both
    psychological and physical violence apart from this clear provocation, a
    newspaper avoids all material or labeling
    which arouse or risks arousing such feelings.