As stated in the preamble of the Charter of Principles: free, complete and accurate information is vital for an appropriate process of democracy.

Media Watch Global underlines the right of all citizens consumers of information –radio, press, television or Internet – to analyse media and become a moral authority entitled to ethically sanction – through publication of reports, public accusations, collective demonstrations and other peaceful forms of social protest – any voluntary disinformation and media manipulation.

In times of economic globalisation and global media restructuring at an unprecedented scale, with the property of media in the hands of few, media criticism becomes a central element of democracy.

The network of organizations that we create with the name of Media Watch Global will be of global outreach, but may have its own characteristics according to each country, being always composed of individuals and non governmental organizations of citizens, professionals, academics, researchers, women organizations or journalists organizations.

Media Watch Global will examine the structure of news content, denoting any distortion or manipulation that may have been done: concealing of information, contempt for ethics and honesty, distortion of facts, invention of fake realities, propaganda, etc.

Sideways from examining news contents, Media Watch Global will also analyse the structural causes of inappropriate, distorted, manipulated or censored media coverage, either because of the concentration of economic power or for any other reason.

Media Watch Global will also analyse the way in which news are produced, insisting on the duties and obligations of journalists, opposing any censorship and without using methods that could lead to restriction of freedom of expression.

Media Watch Global will express its solidarity to journalists who work for companies that are hostile toward independent journalism and who could be pressured to distort, modify or censor information to benefit owners of companies or their announcers.

Media Watch Global will particularly value information diversity, its geographical balance, accurate coverage of social, economic, racial, religious, ethnic and national minorities; cultural diversity, and groups who suffer or have suffered any kind of discrimination; or those who suffer or have suffered media misinformation.

Media Watch Global will mobilize so that media opens an adequate space for all the people who historically do not have or never had voice.