Reviews for Principles of Publicity and Press Freedom

The average rating for Principles of Publicity and Press Freedom based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-10 00:00:00 Justin Bloom Nielsen looks at three kinds of street harassment ' begging, racist verbal attacks on people of color and sexual harassment ' how people on the receiving end think and feel about it, and what they think should be done. She finds that victims of sexual and racial harassment see it as a problem without a solution because of the right of free speech, because they don't want to be seen as victims, or a cynical view that the law can't or won't help them. Nielsen goes on to show that most of the solutions people suggest don't help: "the answer to harmful speech is more speech" for instance, doesn't amount to much when you're being called a racist or sexist epithet and worried pushing back might trigger violence. And that despite the targets of panhandlers finding it much less troubling that being called the n-word (for example), local governments have no trouble rationalizing panhandling bans, possibly because it's more annoying to white dudes with money. So why not sexual/racial harassment bans as well? Thought-provoking.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-11-24 00:00:00 George Magalios Highlighting varied issues of the so-called free press of Belloc's time, it so happens that many of these so mentioned issues still affect the press today. He focuses on how news is manipulated, analyses the industry's problems, and suggests a reformation of the news media. You could read it online at project gutenberg: