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Law, ethics and the Constitution

Mass Communication and Journalism (Code 63) · Unit 6 · ~11 min read · Original chapter

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A journalist is arrested for a report, a channel is told it cannot air a story, and a citizen asks why speech is free but not unlimited. This chapter separates law from ethics, traces the Constitution's evolution and its free-speech guarantee, and explains why Article 19(1)(a) protects expression while Article 19(2) permits reasonable restrictions — using one banned report as the running example.

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