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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Freedom of the Press"”.
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A critical analysis of freedom of the press under the state of national disaster relating to the corona virus pandemic in South Africa
The protection of the right to freedom of the press is vitally important in a democratic state. The purpose of this study is to critically analyse the right to freedom of the press in South Africa under the national state of disaster relating to the corona virus pandemic. The aim is to establish …
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Three essays on institutions, financial markets and foreign direct investment
This dissertation is composed of three essays in financial economics and development economics. The underlying theme in three essays is about the impact of institution quality on financial markets and foreign direct investment (FDI). There are five chapters included in this dissertation. Chapter …
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Press Freedom In Qatar
This thesis considers freedom of the press in Qatar pre1995 and post 1995 the year the Amir abolished press censorship. It uses a combination of different methods, a literature review, a questionnaire and unstructured interviews, to investigate the subject. It looks at different theories of the …
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Student Newspaper Governance on Public University Campuses in Ohio: Higher Education Administrators vs. Student Journalists
This study examined attitudes of administrators, faculty, and students regarding student newspapers on Ohio’s public university campuses; how student newspapers on the university campuses are governed, whether jurisdiction lies in administration, faculty, or student oversight; the extent to which …
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Media Democracy Deferred: The Postwar Settlement for U.S. Communications, 1945--1949
… media policies and reform efforts by analyzing the 1940s postwar critical juncture when policymakers, social movements, and communication industries grappled over the role of a commercial press in a democratic society. By focusing on policy formations around the Hutchins Commission, the Federal …
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Advertising and social responsibility as models of the press: a study of three local newspapers
Concentration of media ownership in the United States has increased throughout the 20th century and threatens to dilute competition between press outlets and to reduce the quality of news coverage available to the audience as a result. Several scholars have identified mass advertising as a major …
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Some Aspects of the Editorial Policy of L'Avenir from 16 October 1830 to 15 November 1831
In October 1830, following the July Revolution in France, a group of French Catholic priests and laymen began to publish /’Avenir, a daily newspaper with the motto “Dieu et la Liberté”, and with the avowed objective of uniting what were seen as the diametrically opposed principles of liberalism and …
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'The Protected Disclosures Act 2000: limitation on the defamation law in South Africa'
Freedom of expression is constitutionally protected by the 1996 Constitution of South Africa. The constitution makes special provision to include freedom of the press and other media, freedom to receive or impart information or ideas, freedom of artistic creativity, academic freedom and freedom of …
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The freedom of expression in Zambia: Are there enough laws put in place to strenthen the exercise of this freedom on do most laws rob it of its efficacy?
The Constitution of Zambia, which is the supreme law of the Land, does recognize and guarantee the freedom of expression under Article 20. The constitution, under Article 20(i) provides that:-"Except with his own consent, no person shall be hindered on the enjoyment of his freedom of expression, …
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The freedom of expression in Zambia: Are there enough laws put in place to strenthen the exercise of this freedom on do most laws rob it of its efficacy?
The Constitution of Zambia, which is the supreme law of the Land, does recognize and guarantee the freedom of expression under Article 20. The constitution, under Article 20(i) provides that:-"Except with his own consent, no person shall be hindered on the enjoyment of his freedom of expression, …
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Labor's New Deal for Journalism---the Newspaper Guild in the 1930s
The Depression and the New Deal brought together a variety of conditions and social forces that set up a formative clash over the institution of professional journalism. At the heart of that fight was the rise of the American Newspaper Guild and its battle for control over the trusteeship of the …
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Crime Fiction of Crisis: New Neo-Realism in the Age of Berlusconi from 1990 to 2010
… De Cataldo written between 1990 and 2010, the years known as the era of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, an age that is symbolic, among other things, of disrespect and affront to democracy, of reinforcement of sexism, control of the media, controversial legitimizing views of …
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Social Media, Transparency and Freedom of Expression
… social media’s contribution to transparency and freedom of expression. Its main aim is to establish if online platforms contribute to the prerequisites of good governance, especially in countries where laws and regulations are restrictive. With a focus on the United Republic of Tanzania, the …
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Patriots and Fribbles: Effeminacy and Politics in the Literature of the Seven Years’ War and its Aftermath, 1756-1774
This thesis examines British cultural anxieties surrounding effeminacy and foreignness in the literature of the Seven Years’ War and its aftermath, c. 1756-1772. Primarily, it is concerned with assessing how anxiety regarding effeminacy presents as a discourse of crisis within a diverse set of …
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Pamfletter! : En diskursiv praktik och dess strategier i tidig svensk politisk offentlighet
This thesis discusses argumentative strategies for legitimation and delegitimation in political pamphlets published in 1769 and in 1809–1810, each period representing the onset of democracy and freedom of the press. The aim of the study is twofold. The empirical aim is to examine the political …
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Media law reforms: The quest to transform the Zambia national broadcasting corporation-ZNBC-From state owned and controlled media to a public service broadcaster
… Reforms in Zambia have been intensified and in the last half of the last millennium, Zambia has seen a lot of developments in the media.The focus has been to open up the market for private radio, television and newspapers and magazines. But very few efforts have been made to try and transform …
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Media law reforms: The quest to transform the Zambia national broadcasting corporation-ZNBC-From state owned and controlled media to a public service broadcaster
… Reforms in Zambia have been intensified and in the last half of the last millennium, Zambia has seen a lot of developments in the media.The focus has been to open up the market for private radio, television and newspapers and magazines. But very few efforts have been made to try and transform …
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Geschichte in Literatur-- Literatur als Geschichte: Fürst Pücklers literarische Stellungnahme zu den historisch-politischen und sozialen Zuständen seiner Zeit dargestellt an den Werken : Briefe eines Verstorbenen, Tutti Frutti und Südöstlicher Bildersaal
… he is largely forgotten or ignored. This thesis proposes the rehabilitation of Nickler in German literary history. His work, consisting mainly of travelogues, achieves a stylistic distinction comparable to that of Heinrich Heine, and depicts events, places and people with a political and …
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The media in transition: The rise of an "independent" press in Post-Invasion Iraq and the American role in shaping the Iraqi press 2003 - 2005
This thesis covers the situation of the Iraqi press landscape after the toppling of Saddam’s regime on the 9th of April 2003. In particular, it attempts to disclose American interventions in the work of the Iraqi press in the period 2003-2006. It examines three main aspects of these interventions, …
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The impact of perceptions of China’s human rights and sustainable development on its soft power initiatives in South Africa
This study examined the representation of China’s human rights and sustainability record in the mainstream South African media. It also explored the factors that influence both South African and Chinese journalists and its potential effects on their coverage of China’s sustainable development and …
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