News Honesty; the Components of " True News" in the News Broadcast of Islamic Republic of Iran Television

The notion that TV is a liar per se seems to be exaggerated but the possibility of the bias, distortion, remaking, distorting reality and favoritism, etc in news programs is definite. Relying on three cognitive sources; ‘’research studies done in the realm of communications and journalism’’, ‘’international moral bylaws and charters’’ and ‘’fiqhi research studies on news), this paper seeks to extract the components that contribute to broadcasting true news and determine the characteristics of what can be called true news. The findings of this research show that, given the professional principles of journalism, international moral charters, fiqhi rules and views, the news products of IRIB will be authentic if they have such components as, impartiality, objectivity, justice, honesty and universality as honesty news providing indicators.