Human Right, Communication Right and the Press Freedom

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1 * Human Right, Communication Right and the Press Freedom Chien-San Feng Abstract Article 19 of the Universal Human Rights Declaration implies two communication rights. The negative one indicates a situation where individuals or media can freely communicate to others without constraints, while the positive one concerns itself in the main with amounts of communication resources and their distribution among individuals and their collective representatives. For its historical context, negative right has been drawing much more attentions and since the mid-1990s there has witnessed a growing discontent with such rights being irresponsibly wielded by the media. This paper argues that, to alleviate such anxieties, conception of positive communication right need promoting so that the state plays an empowering role and intervenes to make the media market work more efficiently. The author concludes with a low-key proposal of establishing a public TV group that was initially put forward by the incumbent President Shui-bian Chen before taking office. keywords article 19, negative freedom, positive freedom, press freedom, communication right, communication policy, public television. * Professor of NCCU Department of Journalism

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