What is it about?
This book is about freedom of expression and media ethics. My second book in a series of book on the boundaries of liberty of tolerance, the Democratic Catch, freedom of speech and media ethics.
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Why is it important?
Of all the dilemmas in the operation of free governments, the dilemma of free discussion and the delimitation of press freedom are the most intractable. In these essays Raphael Cohen-Almagor tackles the dilemma at the points where its complexities are most apparent. Political theorists, politicians, and philosophical journalists (if such there be) will have good reason to ponder what he has to say. GEOFFREY MARSHALL THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE, OXFORD
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SPEECH, MEDIA, AND ETHICS: THE LIMITS OF FREE EXPRESSION deals with limits on freedom of expression, defined broadly as including the right to demonstrate and to picket, the right to compete in elections, and the right to communicate views via the written and electronic media. Throughout the book moral principles are applied to analyse questions that deal with liberty and its limits. PART ONE deals with recent controversies over freedom of expression. PART TWO focuses attention on freedom of communication and media ethics, a very timely concern in the western world. The essays analyse some of the basic principles, and fallacies, of the media. All these essays formulate ethical limits on the working of the media, emphasising that these should be self-imposed by the media rather than imposed from above by the legislature or the courts.
Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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This page is a summary of: Speech, Media and Ethics, January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1057/9780230501829.
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