Abstract
This paper is an attempt to confront the opinion of Polish journalists, on the state of ethical principles in their operating environment to a set of rules in the Charter of Media Ethics. It tries to explain how, in the opinion of journalists, standards exist on paper are reflected in the daily journalistic work. The paper will be presented codes operating in the Polish media content analysis and the results of five leading weeklies "Gość niedzielny", "Polityka, Newsweek", "Wprost", "Przekrój", "Przegląd" on the cross section of the period from January to March 2010.