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Hate Speech or Free Speech?

Hate Speech or Free Speech?. Professor Eric Freedman 6 December2011 Tallinn University Institute of Communication freedma5@msu.edu. Lecture Outline. Hate speech: Words or sticks-and-stones? Rights of individuals & the press The far right in the Netherlands

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Hate Speech or Free Speech?

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  1. Hate Speech or Free Speech? Professor Eric Freedman 6 December2011 Tallinn University Institute of Communication freedma5@msu.edu

  2. Lecture Outline • Hate speech: Words or sticks-and-stones? • Rights of individuals & the press • The far right in the Netherlands • The Prophet Muhammad cartoons controversy • The Holocaust • Diversity in news coverage & sourcing

  3. Themes • Professional ethical standards in theory and in practice. • Conflicts between multiple roles of journalists as professionals & citizens. • Impact of changing communication technologies & economic models on ethical practices.

  4. Glossary • Marketplace of ideas: Concept that allowing free debate in liberal democracies about competing ideas on controversial issues will lead to the truth or the best policies.

  5. 3 Issues Rights of individuals and groups to express their own opinions in private or in public. Rights of the press – news organizations – to express their organization’s views. Media’s right to serve as a forum for other people to express their views

  6. Stereotyping

  7. Hate Speech: Words or Sticks & Stones? “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” English idiom “Words that kill.” Valeriu Nicolae

  8. The Geert Wilders Case: The Netherlands

  9. Holocaust memorial at the site of the former Klooga concentration camp, part of the Viavara complex in Harju County.

  10. 2 Areas of Diversity Concern • Diversity in the newsroom • Diversity in the news Resources: • Islam, Muslims & Journalism Education website http://imaje.msu.edu • “Best Practices for Reporting on Islam” http://imaje.msu.edu/guidelines/

  11. Discussion Points • Can journalists avoid showing their strong personal feelings when reporting about bias, discrimination and hate groups or hate speech? • Should news stories directly and accurately quote hate speech statements and slurs?

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