<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div>This might be of interest to some in the BB community…</div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div class="title-link-citation" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><a href="http://gmc.sagepub.com/content/12/2/127?etoc" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 204); font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Defining media freedom in international policy debates</a></div><div class="title-link-authors" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin-top: 5px;">Andrei Richter</div></blockquote></span><div><br></div><div>The current debate in intergovernmental organizations about the object
of freedom of the media has its origins in recent history.
Conventions and other international legal and
political documents provide, in retrospect, an insight into the relevant
ideas
shared by many, while accord on their meaning is
usually reached by agreement that results from intense negotiations by
both
experts and diplomats. I argue that notions and
concepts of what exactly should be protected under the umbrella of media
freedom
have been transformed during three distinct periods
in post-war history. The related definitions are placed in the
hierarchy
of universal human rights. The contemporary
international debate is illustrated with an example of the latest
challenges to
the scope of freedom of the media. The document
analysis leads to a possible solution to the current intergovernmental
argument. </div></body></html>