Journal article
From freedom of expression to a public right to hear
- By Mike Ananny
Pages 80 to 85
Cite this article
- ANANNY, Mike,
- Ananny, Mike.
- Ananny, M.
https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.079.0080
Cite this article
- Ananny, M.
- Ananny, Mike.
- ANANNY, Mike,
https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.079.0080
English
Rather than abandoning or collapsing the idea of press freedom—seeing it as naive or anachronistic—my aim is to revive and redeploy it (…) in order to argue for a particular normative value—a public right to hear. I claim that the dominant, historical, professionalized image of press freedom—as whatever journalists say they need to be free from to pursue self-evident public interest—privileges an individual right to speak over a public right to hear, while this latter deserves to be claimed as central to our networked press freedom.