Speech, Media and Ethics

RAPHAEL COHEN-ALMAGOR is Senior Lecturer at the Department ofCommunication, University of Haifa, Israel. During 1999-2000 he was Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law and Department of Communication, and thewinner of the Fulbright-Yitzhak Rabin Award. Dr. Cohen-Almagor is the author ofThe Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance (1994) and the editor of Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance (2000), Challenges to Democracy (2000), Medical Ethics at the Dawn of the 21st Century (2000) and Basic Issues in Israeli Democracy (1999).

• Foreword; G.Marshall Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION Harm Principle, Offence Principle, and Hate Speech The Right to Demonstrate v. the Right to Privacy: Picketing Private Homes of Public Officials The Right to Participate in Elections: Judicial and Practical Considerations PART TWO: MEDIA ETHICS, FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITIES Objective Reporting in the Media: Phantom Rather than Panacea Ethical Boundaries of Media Coverage Media Coverage of Suicide: Comparative Analysis The Work of the Press Councils in Great Britain, Canada, and Israel: A Comparative Appraisal Appendix Index