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Название: Media Freedom

Автор: Damian Tambini

Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited

Жанр: Кинематограф, театр

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isbn: 9781509544707

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      Copyright © Damian Tambini 2021

      The right of Damian Tambini to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      First published in 2021 by Polity Press

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      ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4470-7

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      Names: Tambini, Damian, author.

      Title: Media freedom / Damian Tambini.

      Description: Medford : Polity Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “An expert on media regulation develops a new theory of media freedom for the digital age” – Provided by publisher.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2021003005 (print) | LCCN 2021003006 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509544684 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509544691 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509544707 (epub) | ISBN 9781509549191 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Information services industry–Social aspects. | Mass media. | Democracy.

      Classification: LCC HD9999.I492 T36 2021 (print) | LCC HD9999.I492 (ebook) | DDC 323.44/501–dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021003005 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021003006

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      This book was written during two research sabbaticals: at the Department of Political Science at the University of Perugia, and at Mansfield College, Oxford, and I would like to thank wonderful colleagues at both of those institutions. I am grateful to the following people for commenting on earlier drafts: Cecile Fabre, David Levy, Paolo Mancini, Martin Moore, Alan Rusbridger, Philip Schlesinger, Jean Seaton, David Souter, Mark Thompson and Hugh Tomlinson. I am grateful to Jun Yu for help preparing the manuscript and to Nick Couldry for advice on an earlier version. Peter Bergamin, Rachel Craufurd Smith, Jonathan Heawood, Sonia Livingstone, Kate O’Regan, Monroe Price and Jacob Rowbottom have all provided input and advice in the process of developing the ideas in this book. There have been numerous conversations along the way with my students, from whom I have learned a huge amount and whom it has, at the LSE and previously Oxford, been a great privilege to teach. I would particularly like to acknowledge the thoughtful contributions of Nikola Belakova, Sally Broughton Micova, Ruth Garland, Eva Marie Knoll, Eleonora Mazzoli, Rufus Taylor III and Maira Vaca Baqueiro. I am grateful to the journal Intermedia for permission to republish some updated and revised sections from an article published in 2018.

      Democracy looks shaky. As the world faces a succession of global crises, even advocates of plural, multi-party politics are asking whether citizens can be trusted to select the right representatives to confront those crises, and if publics are capable of deliberating fair and effective policies to surmount them.

      Many identify the roots of our democratic tribulations in a crisis in our media: citizens have lost trust in common facts and authoritative voices, which are drowned out by the noise and distraction of the internet. Democratic self-confidence has evaporated as populists both within and outside democracies seek to control media, and construct new tools of targeted propaganda.

      The liberal democratic polity based the legitimacy of collective decision-making on a notion of individual liberty and rationality. The media were free as long as they operated according to an ethics of truth, and broadly served democratic government. Democracy was inconceivable without free media, but the media trod a fine line: for the right they were a liberal conspiracy, and for the left a hegemony of the powerful. The legitimacy of the entire system rested on the ability of the media to marshal sufficient trust in the fairness of the democratic game, and the ethical basis of their own craft. This in turn rested on a social compact of rights and freedoms. Media privileges and protections – including media freedom itself – were in theory, and to an extent in practice, based on self-regulated ethical responsibilities to truth, fairness and accuracy in reporting.

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