Speech, Media and Ethics

Download or read book Speech, Media and Ethics written by R. Cohen-Almagor and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-04-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.