Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy

Carl Fox is a lecturer at the IDEA Centre in the University of Leeds. He won the 2014 Robert Papazian Essay Prize for his paper on ‘Political Authority, Practical Identity, and Binding Citizens’. He has also worked as a sub-editor on the Irish Independent, Sunday Independent, and Evening Herald.Joe Saunders is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Durham University. Funnily enough, he won the 2015 Robert Papazian Essay Prize for his paper ‘Kant and the Problem of Recognition’. He currently works on freedom, love, media ethics, Kant and the post-Kantian tradition.

• IntroductionCarl Fox and Joe SaundersPart I: Democracy and the Media1. Immigration in the Brexit Campaign: Protean Dogwhistles and Political ManipulationJennifer Saul2. The Ethics of InterrogationJulian Baggini3. Lynton Crosby and the Dark Arts of DemocracyJoe Saunders4. Trust Me: News, Credibility Deficits, and BalanceCarrie Figdor5. Protecting Politicians’ Privacy for the Sake of DemocracyRob Lawlor and Kevin MacnishPart II: Free Speech and the Media 6. Free Speech and Liberal CommunityGerald Lang7. Political Correctness Gone ViralRobert Simpson and Waleed Aly8. Journalism, Offence, and Free SpeechCarl Fox9. The Real Story about Fake NewsKay MathiesenPart III: Bias, Ideology and the Media 10. How Media Makes, Ignites and Breaks IdeologyDavid Livingstone Smith11. "I’m not with stupid": Tales of False Consciousness for a Post-Brexit AgeLorna Finlayson 12. Partisan News, the Myth of Objectivity, and the Standards of Responsible JournalismChristopher Meyers13. The Obligation to Diversify One’s Sources: Against Epistemic Partisanship in the Consumption of News MediaAlex Worsnip

"This is an excellent book filled with original and thought-provoking arguments. As any good book in applied ethics, it should appeal to a broad audience as well as to professional philosophers. Scholars and advanced students in other related fields, as well as practitioners of journalism will find this book rewarding and accessible." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"All in all, this is an interesting and coherent collection, which is definitely worth a read." – European Journal of Communication