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Public Awareness Of Human Rights: Distortions In The Mass Media, Eric Heinze, Rosa Freedman

Prof. Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London

This article examines distortions of human rights reporting in the mass media. We examine human rights coverage in four of the most influential newspapers, two from the US and two from the UK. The US papers are The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. The British papers are The Financial Times and The Guardian.

Most current scholarship on international human rights draws its information from specialized sources, such as the published reports of intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations. Wholly absent has been any systematic study of the mass media. To date, no one has examined the dominant media agencies, …

Book Review, Eric Heinze

Prof. Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London

Book Review of: MURRAY DRY. Civil Peace and the Quest for Truth: The First Amendment Freedoms in Political Philosophy and American Constitutionalism. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2004. x, 307 pp. $88.00 (cloth); 29.95 (paper). Murray Dry attempts to draw a number of links between the ‘speech’ and ‘religion’ clauses of the First Amendment. Unfortunately, he fails in a number of respects. He confuses core elements of the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses, and fails to examine Freedom of Speech within the context of fundamental controversies that have arisen throughout the post-World War II era. The errors he makes stand as …