What Is The Freedom Of Press
What is the freedom of press?
1. what is press? mediums including newspaper, radio, television, internet and etc.
2. what are the ideal purpose of the press? Newsworthy information, inform citizens, democracy
2. imagine freedom of press is abusively used. what do you think if these are in press?
a) Defamation: Martin Bouygues was briefly reported as dead last weekend by Agence France Presse (AFP)
b) Obscenity
c) Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law.
d) propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law
e) violence
3. how do laws protect the freedom, take un as an example. That means freedom is equal for everyone hence should not violate each other. Human rights are universal, inalienable and indivisible. Their universality and indivisibility embolden and protect these rights. Their inalienability is their guarantee to every citizen of the world upon birth. These basic human rights, which are non-discriminatory and non-flexible, are the same for all, and give us dignity as individuals. There is no hierarchy between these rights. They exist in a nexus-relationship.
4. Press freedom, and self-expression in general, differs vastly in the world, with even a liberal country like Sweden possessing laws that criminalize what's considered hate speech and prohibiting expressions of contempt directed against a group or one of its members.
Germany
Will Self, writer:
"Well, when the issue came up of the Danish cartoons [of Muhammad] I observed that the test I apply to something to see whether it truly is satire derives from
H. L. Mencken's definition of good journalism: It should 'afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.' The trouble with a lot of so-called 'satire' directed against religiously motivated extremists is that it's not clear who it's afflicting, or who it's comforting. This is in no way to condone the shooting of the journalists, which is
1. what is press? mediums including newspaper, radio, television, internet and etc.
2. what are the ideal purpose of the press? Newsworthy information, inform citizens, democracy
2. imagine freedom of press is abusively used. what do you think if these are in press?
a) Defamation: Martin Bouygues was briefly reported as dead last weekend by Agence France Presse (AFP)
b) Obscenity
c) Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law.
d) propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law
e) violence
3. how do laws protect the freedom, take un as an example. That means freedom is equal for everyone hence should not violate each other. Human rights are universal, inalienable and indivisible. Their universality and indivisibility embolden and protect these rights. Their inalienability is their guarantee to every citizen of the world upon birth. These basic human rights, which are non-discriminatory and non-flexible, are the same for all, and give us dignity as individuals. There is no hierarchy between these rights. They exist in a nexus-relationship.
4. Press freedom, and self-expression in general, differs vastly in the world, with even a liberal country like Sweden possessing laws that criminalize what's considered hate speech and prohibiting expressions of contempt directed against a group or one of its members.
Germany
Will Self, writer:
"Well, when the issue came up of the Danish cartoons [of Muhammad] I observed that the test I apply to something to see whether it truly is satire derives from
H. L. Mencken's definition of good journalism: It should 'afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.' The trouble with a lot of so-called 'satire' directed against religiously motivated extremists is that it's not clear who it's afflicting, or who it's comforting. This is in no way to condone the shooting of the journalists, which is