When looking at the different types of media outlets around the world and how they broadcast the news we tend to see differences between them. The standards of taste and decency being one of them. Ethical standards for journalists are different when looking at stories from the UK and abroad.
For example the UK tend to have a different standard to other countries when it comes to controlling what goes in and out of the media. This mainly because they have standards to uphold to please their audience and not to offend them. While on the other hand for example other parts of Europe, like Germany and Spain choose to appeal to their audience differently.
What is meant by standards?
In the UK the media try to care about their audience and their feelings towards whatever processed on the news. This means by setting some rules/standards to abide by in order not to cross those boundaries and upset people. These are created by Ofcom, an independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries. There rules for Harm and Offence (Taste and Decency) are generally there to follow in order to avoid publishing harmful material that could potentially harm and offend the public. This includes publishing explicit pictorial content or video imagery, violence, sex, bad language etc.
Other countries are not as squeamish as the Britain and in fact have a higher tolerance when it comes to gory content or explicit imagery.
However when looking at the ethics of publishing the "Page 3" models in The Sun, do people agree with it being publicised. Having run for almost over 45 years it has come across so much controversy but yet has still manages to be the most popular page in the newspaper.
Other countries in Europe too have a "Page 3" and consider it as a
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