TY - JOUR
T1 - Journalism and the Politics of Hate
T2 - Charting Ethical Responses to Religious Intolerance
AU - GEORGE, Cherian
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - A series of international controversies involving religious offense have manifested the clash of values between freedom of expression and respect for religious identity. Such conflicts pose an ethical dilemma for media. Journalists need to assert freedom of expression, but they should also understand how hate speech can be used to repress targeted groups, and not turn into unwitting facilitators of such campaigns. They should also appreciate that the taking of offense, and not just the giving of it, can be engineered by leaders of religious communities to secure a political advantage. Journalists appear underprepared for handling such events. While not attempting a revision of current codes of ethics, this paper draws on legal discourse to suggest a framework and a language through which journalists can deliberate their ethics to respond to an urgent global challenge. Copyright Taylor & Francis.
AB - A series of international controversies involving religious offense have manifested the clash of values between freedom of expression and respect for religious identity. Such conflicts pose an ethical dilemma for media. Journalists need to assert freedom of expression, but they should also understand how hate speech can be used to repress targeted groups, and not turn into unwitting facilitators of such campaigns. They should also appreciate that the taking of offense, and not just the giving of it, can be engineered by leaders of religious communities to secure a political advantage. Journalists appear underprepared for handling such events. While not attempting a revision of current codes of ethics, this paper draws on legal discourse to suggest a framework and a language through which journalists can deliberate their ethics to respond to an urgent global challenge. Copyright Taylor & Francis.
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U2 - 10.1080/08900523.2014.893771
DO - 10.1080/08900523.2014.893771
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84898992268
SN - 0890-0523
VL - 29
SP - 74
EP - 90
JO - Journal of Media Ethics: Exploring Questions of Media Morality
JF - Journal of Media Ethics: Exploring Questions of Media Morality
IS - 2
ER -