{"id":44,"date":"2014-03-04T06:54:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T06:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lindsay.mengel.com.au\/?p=44"},"modified":"2014-05-05T05:53:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T05:53:50","slug":"david-puttnam-does-the-media-have-a-duty-of-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lindsay.mengel.com.au\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"David Puttnam: Does the Media have a &#8216;duty of care&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently watched this Ted Talk by David Puttnam about how the media should owe a duty of care to society for its published content. Those of you interested in law, journalism and politics should definitely check it out..<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/david_puttnam_what_happens_when_the_media_s_priority_is_profit.html\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Puttnam: Does the media have a &quot;duty of care&quot;?\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/david_puttnam_does_the_media_have_a_duty_of_care\" width=\"1200\" height=\"676\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I agree that a novel duty of care should be created to encompass the media or at very least the media in a political context. Although this could be argued as censorship, should those negatively impacting the success of our democratic system have a voice?<\/p>\n<p>The fourth estate should be the watchdog for the public as a whole, only searching and saying the truth with an unbiased voice. So that the public can have an informed debate rather than being given a side to choose from.<\/p>\n<p><em>For context: A duty of care includes the notions of reasonable care and reasonable foreseeability. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently watched this Ted Talk by David Puttnam about how the media should owe a duty of care to society for its published content. Those of you interested in law, journalism and politics should definitely check it out..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,3],"tags":[58,56,57],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-journalism","category-politics","tag-david-puttnam","tag-duty-of-care","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindsay.mengel.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindsay.mengel.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindsay.mengel.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindsay.mengel.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindsay.mengel.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lindsay.mengel.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"http:\/\/lindsay.mengel.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindsay.mengel.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindsay.mengel.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindsay.mengel.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}