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1. It is prohibited
to broadcast any program that includes negative statements about
religions or beliefs.
2. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that creates any
disputation among different religious groups.
3. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that criticizes
the state national system.
4. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that includes statements
that encourage violation of the law.
5. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that criticizes
national heroism.
6. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that criticizes
Arab nationalism and its struggle, values, and national traditions.
7. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that criticizes
other nationalities.
8. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that criticizes
officers of the courts, military officers, or security officers
as well as religious leaders.
9. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that criticizes
state officials because of their performance.
10. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that disparages
any legitimate profession.
11. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that threatens
family ties or disparages its sanctity or condemns family values.
12. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that favors divorce
as a means to solve family problems.
13. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that includes
obscenity, vulgar, or indecent pictures.
14. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that criticizes
the ethics of the society or violates the rules of decency either
by sound, picture, or by performance.
15. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that encourages
indecency either by sound, picture, or performance.
16. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that contains
materials that may cause depression or spread the spirit of
defeat among individuals or communities.
17. It is prohibited to criticize the values that come from
Egyptian traditions.
18. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that creates social
confusion or criticizes the principles and traditions of Arab
society.
19. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that encourages
discrimination on the basis of color, race, religion, or social
status.
20. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that promotes
crime or displays it in such a way that may cause imitation.
21. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that encourages
the use or distribution of illegal substances or activities
prohibited by Islam such as the consumption of alcoholic beverages
or gambling.
22. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that encourages
blood revenge.
23. It is prohibited to broadcast to portray (sic) violence
to humans or animals.
24. It is prohibited to broadcast any pictures of horror.
25. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that may hurt
the feelings of the handicapped or the mentally retarded.
26. It is prohibited to broadcast any confidential information.
27. It is prohibited to broadcast any scientific, technical,
professional, or religious advice or commentary unless it has
been reviewed or is broadcast by experts in the field.
28. It is prohibited to broadcast what contradicts scientific
facts, such as superstition.
29. It is prohibited to anyone employed by ERTU to use ERTU
equipment for his/her benefit or to use it for personal propaganda.
It is also prohibited for anyone employed by ERTU to permit
the broadcast or to broadcast any materials that may advertize
for individuals, artists, the audience, products, or companies.
30. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that criticizes
other broadcast programs.
31. It is prohibited to anyone employed by ERTU to broadcast
or to permit the broadcast of any official materials. It is
prohibited to give unearned titles to guests.
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* Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU):
The General Communication Plan 1989-1990, pp. 12-13 (Cairo,
Egypt 1989). TBS is informed that ERTU is in the process of
developing a new Code of Ethics.
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