POS2041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Plastic Surgery, Cultural Learning
16 Aug 2020
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Print media, such as newspapers and magazines. Broadcast media, such as televised news stations and radio shows. The civil law of defamation can be used legitimately to protect the reputations of such figures from reckless and malicious allegations. However, national courts have also ruled that the concept of defamation must not stifle vigorous political debate or prevent the media from carrying out their proper function. In 1964, the united states supreme court established in new. York times v sullivan that there should be a greater purpose in criticizing a public official, even in the case of misinformed or inaccurate statements, provided that these were not intentional and made maliciously. Often claimed necessary in order to succesfully prevent terrorism, domestic crime, and social unrest. More often than one might think, a report published in. 2019 by freedom on the net, warns that nine in every 10 internet users are being actively monitored online.
