Liberalism and the media

Latin American media and the shortcomings of liberalism

Liberal theory is ill-equipped to deal with existing and historic inequalities; the market alone would never be enough to dismantle the media monopolies which plague Latin American media.

By Open democracy

/ 9 Feb 2015

Charlie Hebdo tragedy: free speech and its broader contexts

This was a specific attack designed to sow division. We musn't let it.

By Des Freedman

/ 9 Jan 2015

Liberalism, the media and the NHS

Standing at some ill-defined midpoint between three neoliberal parties is now deemed, by the BBC and others, to represent some sort of "impartiality". Though impartial in Westminster terms it is clearly not in public terms. The NHS paid a heavy price.

By Colin Leys

/ 11 Sep 2014

‘Liberal’ reform and normativity in media analysis

Media reform in the neoliberal context may involve a fundamental re-evaluation and re-imagining of many of the ‘sacred’ normative foundations upon which free media and democratically functioning journalism are based.

By Open democracy

/ 18 Aug 2014

Liberal legacies and media reform after neoliberalism

Liberalism cannot secure the media pluralism it wishes. To address the failures of both liberal and neoliberal approaches to media plurality we need the insights of the radical tradition.

By Jonathan Hardy

/ 18 Aug 2014

Full monty journalism - Assange, Greenwald and Snowden

Liberal journalism has always depended on leaks. But changes in technology combined with recent events have opened up a new schism in how journalists approach the state and notions of objectivity.

By Open democracy

/ 13 Aug 2014

I have looked at the glass of liberalism and seen it as half-full. If we are ever going to change our societies for the better, it will be as advocates of the best of the liberal tradition.

By Open democracy

/ 12 Aug 2014

The modalities of media liberalism

What are the values proper to journalism, and how these might best be protected, encouraged and enhanced. Is the market the most effective guarantor of the freedom of the press so highly prized by liberals, or do market forces act as agents of censorship in certain important respects?

By Julian Petley

/ 11 Aug 2014