Free-media-speech: Free speech and public media

In: International journal of media & cultural politics, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 155-162

Abstract

Abstract
While much writing about free speech focuses on the legal constraints on expression and matters of state censorship, free speech also entails positive obligations on the state to create the conditions for diverse public communication. This article explores how the rationales for free speech support, and indeed require, public media. For mediated communication, free speech involves the promotion of diversity in speakers, topics, audiences and modes of address. All this requires more than commonly repeated debates that are framed in terms of industry dynamics and related regulatory options. It requires media free speech.