Sport Management Studies

Ethical Issues Iran Sport Media: Perceptions of Professional Football Players

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Amin Rayat 1
Nasrallah Sajjadi 2
Hosein Rajabi 3
Mehdi Rayat 1

1 Young Researchers and Elite Club, Dariyon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dariun, Iran

2 Professor of Sport Management, University of Tehran

3 Assistant Professor of Sport Management, University of Tehran, Kish International Campus

https://doi.org/10.22089/smrj.2017.1550.1353
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of professional football players on the obedience of the Iran Sport Media to journalistic ethical codes. This study was based on feedback received from 138 professional football players whose ages ranged from 20≤ (n=30), 21-30 (n=53) and 31≥ (n=55) years, representing teams participating in Iran’s League. Each participant evaluated a series of five statements related to the media’s news gathering techniques, treatment of their personal lives, prevalence of gossip, general accuracy of news stories, as well as the tendency of the media to stimulate and encourage violence. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the Kruskal-Wallis Non-Parametric test were used to Analyse the data. It was determined that the ethical codes, namely gossip, private life and honesty are frequently violated, and the ethical codes, namely newsgathering and violence are sometimes violated. According to these results, Turkish sport media outlets are plagued with significant ethical code difficulties.

Keywords

Ethical Code
Sports Media
Professional Football Players
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Sport Management Studies
Volume 12, Issue 59
March and April 2020
Pages 37-52

  • Receive Date 11 September 2015
  • Revise Date 27 November 2016
  • Accept Date 19 December 2016

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