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Enabling Environment:
1. Legal infrastructure
2. Social Infrastructure
3. Economic Infrastructure
4. Professional/Technical Competence
5. Big Bang vs. Muddling Through
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Roumeen Islam:
on Legal Infrastructure
• When libel is a criminal rather than a civil case, journalists
lean toward self-censorship.
• When truth is not a defence for libel, journalists have
incentives to limit their investigations
• When laws provide protection against libelious statements
about matter of public interest and require that individuals
to show that defamatory statements are knowingly or
recklessly false and made with malicious intent, these
favour journalistic freedom.
(World Bank Institute, “The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass
Media in Economic Development, page 13-14)
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From Feudalism to Modernity
Source: World Bank Institute: “The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development.” page 228
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Economic Health vs Freedom of the Press
Sumber: World Bank Institute: “The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development.” Halaman 230
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Freedom from Criminal
Defamation
• Members of European Council (due to adherence
to European Human Rights Court in Strassbourg).
• Members of Inter-American States (due to
adherence to Inter-American States Human Rights
Court)
• USA (due to First Amendment)
• Members of African Regional Human rights Court
• Countries with media laws that comply with
International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights,
ie: Ukrainia, Srilanka etc.
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ICCPR Principles:
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Principles of Media Law in
Democratic Society
• Maximum protection of media freedom
• Truth is a defense
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Principles of Self Regulation
• Oversight by an independent institution (media council or ombudsman) to
ensure ethical conducts
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Principles of Media Ethics
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Pro and Cons of Media Council
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