04911nam 2200685 450 991078814520332120200520144314.09966-031-59-6(CKB)2670000000602909(EBL)1996459(SSID)ssj0001459427(PQKBManifestationID)12647538(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001459427(PQKBWorkID)11463980(PQKB)10711216(OCoLC)908071730(MdBmJHUP)muse46010(Au-PeEL)EBL1996459(CaPaEBR)ebr11040233(CaONFJC)MIL753157(OCoLC)908097257(MiAaPQ)EBC1996459(PPN)198682298(EXLCZ)99267000000060290920150417h20102010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMedia and the common good perspectives on media, democracy, and responsibility /editors, Chaacha Mwita, Luis G. FranceschiNairobi, Kenya ;Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania ;Kampala, Uganda :LawAfrica :Strathmore University,2010.©20101 online resource (183 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9966-7384-8-7 1-336-21871-1 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.Cover; TItle page; Copyright page; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; GLOBALISATION: ITS IMPACT ON THE AFRICAN NATIONS' MEDIA SYSTEMS - THE CASE OF KENYA; SUMMARY; 1.0 INTRODUCTION; 2.0 EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; 2.0.1 Television, Radio, Press, the Internet and the Regulatory Frameworks; 2.0.2 The Transnational Media; 2.0.3 Multinational Corporations and Corporatisation9 of the Media; 2.1 THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS; 2.1.1 The Traditionalist Account; 2.1.2 The Hyperglobalist Account; 2.1.3 The Transformationalist Account; 3.0 POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS; 4.0 THE PUBLIC MEDIA5.0 THE PRIVATE MEDIA6.0 THE COMMUNITY MEDIA; 7.0 NEW TECHNOLOGIES; 8.0 CONCLUSION; 9.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY; ETHICAL JOURNALISM: INDIVIDUAL CHALLENGE AND COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY; SUMMARY; 1.0 INTRODUCTION; 2.0 JANUS-FACED JOURNALISTS; 3.0 MEDIA POWER; 4.0 THE 'MEDIAPOLIS'; 4.0.1 Powerful Media but Powerless Journalists?; 5.0 ETHICAL THINKING AND ACTION; 6.0 AXIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE; 7.0 THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXT; 8.0 FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY; 9.0 HUMAN CONDUCT; 10.0 OBSTACLES TO ETHICAL JOURNALISM; 11.0 IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO; 12.0 BIBLIOGRAPHYMEDIA AND THE COMMON GOOD: SEEKING THE TRUTH AND REPORTING ITSUMMARY; 1.0 INTRODUCTION; 2.0 WHAT IS TRUTH?; 3.0 RELATIVISM: A SELF-DEFEATING PHILOSOPHY; 4.0 SEEKING THE TRUTH; 5.0 INDEPENDENT MEDIA; 6.0 CONCLUSION; 7.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY; FREEDOM OF THE MEDIA IN KENYA; SUMMARY; 1.0 INTRODUCTION - HISTORICAL VIGNETTES ON INTERPLAY BETWEEN MEDIA FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY; 1.0.1 John Adams, Tom Paine and "Common Sense"; 1.0.2 But how Free a Free Press?; 1.0.3 Freedom of the Press v Treason - The Interest of Constitutional Government1.0.4 Freedom of the Press v Sedition - Exciting Disaffection against a Particular Government1.0.5 Freedom of the Press v Irresponsibility - Hate Propaganda, Ethnic Chauvinism, Deliberate Distortion; 2.0 BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE JURISTIC ISSUES CIRCUMSCRIBING THE FREEDOM OF THE MEDIA; 2.0.1 Justification for Freedom of the Media; 2.0.2 Limitations to the Freedom of the Media; 3.0 SITUATION IN KENYA: PREFACE TO THE KENYA COMMUNICATIONS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2008; 3.0.1 Kenya's Constitution and Constitutional Media History; 3.0.1.1 The Media Council, Code of Conduct and Draft Media Policy4.0 CONCLUSION: THE WAY FORWARD5.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY; THE MEDIA, TRUTH AND HUMAN DIGNITY; SUMMARY; 1.0 INTRODUCTION; 2.0 WHAT IS JOURNALISM?; 3.0 WHAT IS THE TRUTH?; 4.0 WHY SEEK THE TRUTH?; 5.0 WHO REPORTS TO WHOM?; 6.0 THE MEDIA AND HUMAN DIGNITY; 7.0 PROFESSIONALISM AND CODES OF ETHICS; 7.0.1 Objectivity; 7.0.2 Sources; 7.0.2.1 Accuracy and Standards for Factual Reporting; 7.0.2.2 Slander and libel considerations; 7.0.2.3 Harm limitation principle; 8.0 A MODEL FOR THE KENYAN MEDIA; 9.0 CONCLUSION; 10.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY; THE MEDIA AND RESPONSIBILITY; SUMMARY; 1.0 INTRODUCTION; 2.0 PRESS FREEDOM3.0 THE KENYAN CASEMass mediaLaw and legislationKenyaFreedom of the pressKenyaJournalistic ethicsKenyaMass mediaLaw and legislationFreedom of the pressJournalistic ethics342.67620853Mwita ChaachaFranceschi Luis G.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788145203321Media and the common good3837141UNINA