Hate Speech or Free Speech?
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Hate Speech or Free Speech?
Professor Eric Freedman6 December2011
Tallinn University Institute of [email protected]
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
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.
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.
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
Stereotyping
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
The Geert Wilders Case: The Netherlands
Holocaust memorial at the site of the former Klooga concentration camp, part of the Viavara complex in Harju County.
2 Areas of Diversity Concern
• Diversity in the newsroom• Diversity in the newsResources: • Islam, Muslims & Journalism Education
websitehttp://imaje.msu.edu• “Best Practices for Reporting on Islam”
http://imaje.msu.edu/guidelines/
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?