Liberalism and free speech

Kelley, David; Donway, Roger

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“…29 In ideal situations, the media provide a wide range of political perspectives to ensure that different geopolitical discourses can be brought into the public domain. The media should also have unbiased, neutral and balanced representations of local, national and global events to inform the public, instead of providing a platform to make the 'controllable geopolitical abstractions' favored by 'intellectuals of statecraft' visible to the public.…”

Section: Critical Geopolitics and Media Framingmentioning

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Feeding (On) Geopolitical Anxieties: Asian Appetites, News Media Framing and the 2007–2008 Food Crisis

Gong

Billon

2014

Geopolitics

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This paper analyses the role of news media in (re)producing geopolitical narratives of food insecurity in relation to the 2007-08 global food price spike. News content and textual analysis suggests that the media's representation of the food price spike is partly framed by Western geopolitical anxieties of the 'threatening rise of Asia', and features 'fast growing' Asian appetites among the main culprits of the crisis. Seeking to explain the widespread circulation of such representation, this paper analyzes media-source relationship within the context of market-driven journalism, and suggests that the changing role of news media has in turn contributed to a rapid and uncritical circulation of elite-based interpretation of, and neoliberal geopolitical approach to, food security.The paper points at the importance of critical enquiries into geopolitical representations of food insecurity and of opening media space for a 'counter-geopolitics of food security'.

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Section: Critical Geopolitics and Media Framingmentioning

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Feeding (On) Geopolitical Anxieties: Asian Appetites, News Media Framing and the 2007–2008 Food Crisis

Gong

Billon

2014

Geopolitics

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“…If voters are uninformed and disengaged, the argument goes, governments will not necessarily be held accountable and democracy itself is called into question. Indeed, it has been argued that the public have a basic right to receive reliable information and, if the media fail to provide it, government regulation will be required to secure this (Kelley and Donway, 1995, in Harrison, 2006, p. 100). For the former Daily Telegraph editor, Max Hastings, there is now a ‘cultural chasm’ between the red tops and the qualities: the qualities make an ‘honest attempt’ to tell the truth and correct their errors while the red tops do not (Hastings, 2002, p. 97).…”

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In Praise of the Popular Press: The Need for Tabloid Racism

Temple

2010

Politics

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This article argues that the mainstream public sphere needs to provide a more accurate portrayal of public opinion on race and immigration. British newspapers are often accused of racism: that they might be representing the views of many of their readers is dismissed. The free circulation of ideas, however unpalatable some might be to ‘enlightened’ thought, is essential. The press can play a key role in a more inclusive public debate by allowing readers' views greater prominence and by opening their news and comment pages to a wider range of opinion. Concerns that readers will be seduced by extremism say more about elite perceptions of the malleability of the masses than about concern for democratic debate.

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“…I refer to this argument as the argument for full freedom of expression of media owners . The single argument available on the specific topic of the freedom of the media from this perspective is offered by the libertarians Kelly and Donway (2001); it follows exactly this form. Similar arguments can also be indirectly inferred from the views of democracy found in Schumpeter (1942/1976), Isaiah Berlin (1969/1958), and Hayek (1976).…”

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When Practice Oversteps the Limits of Theory: An Assessment of Fair Media Coverage for Political Parties in Great Britain and Mexico

Mena

2005

Review of Policy Research

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Over stressing the rights-safeguarding role of democracy has led to a widespread neglect of democracy's essential function: to ensure the legitimacy of elected rulers and by doing so, to ensure political stability. The effects of this neglect are apparent in the disputes that arise concerning media coverage of elections. This article examines the difficulties democratic statesmen face to justify and consistently implement arrangements that limit the freedom of expression of the media in order to minimize the challenges to the legitimacy of electoral outcomes that a biased coverage of elections could incite. Current democratic theory does not address this problem. Indeed its emphasis on safeguarding the rights of citizens can suggest that the freedom of expression of the media should prevail over considerations of legitimacy and stability. This study examines the justifications adduced, and the implementation of, arrangements that curtail the right to advocacy of broadcasters and limit their right to editorial discretion in order to provide political parties with what I refer to here as "fair media coverage." In particular, the article highlights and assesses the experiences in fair media coverage of election campaigns in the British General Election of 1997 and the Mexican Federal Election of 2000. In full view of these case studies, and on the basis of the theoretical guidelines I develop at the beginning of this article, I argue for limiting freedom of expression and stress the urgent need for democratic theories to address the practical problems that trouble democratic authorities. Copyright 2005 by The Policy Studies Organization.

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Liberalism and free speech

Cited by 17 publications

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Feeding (On) Geopolitical Anxieties: Asian Appetites, News Media Framing and the 2007–2008 Food Crisis

Feeding (On) Geopolitical Anxieties: Asian Appetites, News Media Framing and the 2007–2008 Food Crisis

In Praise of the Popular Press: The Need for Tabloid Racism

When Practice Oversteps the Limits of Theory: An Assessment of Fair Media Coverage for Political Parties in Great Britain and Mexico

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