When the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten (Viby, Denmark) published the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed nine years ago, Denmark found itself at the center of a global battle about the freedom of speech. The paper's culture editor, Flemming Rose, defended the decision to print the 12 drawings, and he quickly came to play a central part in the ......
Media's reach penetrates nearly every corner of the world. But it has also been a contested realm, embodying class politics and the interests of monopoly capital. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the economic and political powers that seek to consolidate private control of media with increasing profit - all at the expense of democracy.
Media's reach penetrates nearly every corner of the world. But it has also been a contested realm, embodying class politics and the interests of monopoly capital. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the economic and political powers that seek to consolidate private control of media with increasing profit - all at the expense of democracy.
Robert Martin shows that the history of the free and open press is in many ways the story of the emergence and first real expansions of the early American public sphere and civil society itself.
In this groundbreaking book, Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the "Constitution of Knowledge" - our social system for turning disagreement into truth.
Demonstrates that speech is a more complicated and dynamic notion than we often assume. This book covers issues such as government restrictions on hate speech and obscene and indecent speech; the constitutionality of campaign finance reform; and the treatment to be accorded new technologies of communication under the Constitution.
Demonstrates that speech is a more complicated and dynamic notion than we often assume. This book covers issues such as government restrictions on hate speech and obscene and indecent speech; the constitutionality of campaign finance reform; and the treatment to be accorded new technologies of communication under the Constitution.
Argues that hate speech restrictions are not only dangerous, but counterproductive. Acknowledging the legitimacy of concerns that prompt speech codes and combining support for civil liberties with a concern for civil rights issues, this title demonstrates that it is difficult, to draw the line between unprotected insults and protected ideas.
