 And broadcasters have been charged to ensure that they comply with the rules as set out in the National Broadcasting Code by upholding when disseminating information. This charge was made during a webinar organized by the West Africa Broadcast Media Academy. Our correspondent Jacinta Obuco has more. The webinar titled, Understanding the Broadcasting Code, stresses the need for broadcasters to be responsible for their content and comply with all laws and regulations, including those relating to fake news and hate speech. As a broadcaster, you're not supposed to express your own opinions because you're happy to affirm their opinions on an issue. That means you expose them to the different views, expose them to different knowledge available on the subject, expose them to all of their risk to know, because in broadcasting we educate and we fight. So by a reason of this exposure, you afford them, they're able to form their own opinions and form their right judgments. But when we impose our opinions, we're not being professional. They also highlighted some challenges bedeviling the industry, especially as regards standards. You're supposed to log all your programs. At the end of your broadcast, do you do your login? Do we log? But not all of us do. Are your logs accurate? Sometimes we visit stations and find out that you could visit in May and the station will not have logs since February. Sometimes we just finish and when we're in a hurry to leave, we have to do something, we have to do that when we're in a hurry before we log. So it's the requirements of the post that you log. Why do you log? That this is what could arise from your work. But your log would have said, on this day I had Mr. Jakato as my guest. We have observed the standards are dropping. We see that, we notice it, monitor it. The code is set out in terms of principles, meanings and rules. And for section 7, fairness and aid privacy, also include a set of practices to be followed by broadcasters. Jacinta Obuki reporting for PLOS TV Africa. Thanks to Jacinta Obuki for that report. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.