Speech, Media and Ethics: The Limits of Free Expression

by R. Cohen-Almagor

Overview

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 the boundaries to freedom of expression and freedom of the press, defined broadly to include 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. Moral principles are applied to analyze practical questions that deal with free expression and its limits.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333770764
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/11/2001
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	217
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

RAPHAEL COHEN-ALMAGOR is Senior Lecturer at the Department of

Communication, University of Haifa, Israel. During 1999-2000 he was Visiting

Professor at UCLA School of Law and Department of Communication, and the

winner of the Fulbright-Yitzhak Rabin Award. Dr. Cohen-Almagor is the author of

The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance (1994) and the editor of Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance (2000), Challenges to Democracy (2000), Medical Ethics at the Dawn of the 21st Century (2000) and Basic Issues in Israeli Democracy (1999).

Table of Contents

Foreword; G.Marshall Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION Harm Principle, Offence Principle, and Hate Speech The Right to Demonstrate v. the Right to Privacy: Picketing Private Homes of Public Officials The Right to Participate in Elections: Judicial and Practical Considerations PART TWO: MEDIA ETHICS, FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITIES Objective Reporting in the Media: Phantom Rather than Panacea Ethical Boundaries of Media Coverage Media Coverage of Suicide: Comparative Analysis The Work of the Press Councils in Great Britain, Canada, and Israel: A Comparative Appraisal Appendix Index