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Speech, media, and ethics : the limits of free expression / Raphael Cohen-Almagor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxi, 216 pISBN:
  • 1403947090 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174.907 23
Contents:
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 -- 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? / Al Raphael Cohen-Almagor and Itzhak Yanovitzky.
Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Previous ed.: 2000.

Includes index.

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 -- 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? / Al Raphael Cohen-Almagor and Itzhak Yanovitzky.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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