Media Ethics and Social Change the need for a professional code of ethics to regulate media, in the Arab world and in the West, but how often do we consider the consequences of such a call to arms and whether it is the ultimate solution to all the media's ills ? The word "code" as defined by Webster's Collegiate Dicteionary ;gives us "a systematically arranged collection of existing laws." So, we're assuming that we already have media laws in the Arab world and that they need to be arranged systematically.