Speech, media, and ethics : the limits of free expression : critical studies on freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and the public's right to know / Raphael Cohen-Almagor
- Bib ID:
- 2346657
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cohen-Almagor, Raphael
- Description:
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- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001
- xxi, 216 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0312236077
- 0333770765
- Summary:
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"Speech, Media, and Ethics: The Limits of Free Expression is an interdisciplinary work that employs ethics, liberal philosophy, and legal and media studies to outline boundaries to freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Moral principles are applied to analyse practical questions that deal with free expression and its limits. Part One deals with recent controversies over freedom of expression. It addresses the right to demonstrate, the right to picket the private homes of public officials, and the right to compete in elections, suggesting boundaries to these basic rights. Part Two focuses on freedom of communications and media ethics, a very timely concern in the Western world. It considers the concept of 'the public's right to know' and its ethical constraints.
The essays analyse some of the basic principles, and fallacies, of the media, offering ethical limits on their work while emphasizing that these limits should be self-imposed rather than imposed from above by the legislature or the courts."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Pt. I. Freedom of Expression
- 1. Harm Principle, Offence Principle, and Hate Speech
- 2. The Right to Demonstrate versus the Right to Privacy: Picketing Private Homes of Public Officials
- 3. The Right to Participate in Elections: Judicial and Practical Considerations
- Pt. II. Media Ethics, Freedom and Responsibilities
- 4. Objective Reporting in the Media: Phantom Rather than Panacea
- 5. Ethical Boundaries of Media Coverage
- 6. Media Coverage of Suicide: Comparative Analysis
- 7. The Work of the Press Councils in Great Britain, Canada, and Israel: a Comparative Appraisal
- App. Perceptions of Media Coverage among the Israeli-Jewish Public: a Reflection of Existing Social Cleavages? / Raphael Cohen-Almagor and ltzhak Yanovitzky.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-211) and indexes.
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- Copyright:
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