Why we must maintain sanctity of free speech and ethics in Journalism

By Moin Qazi New Delhi: Free speech or the freedom of expression is the modern civilization’s most precious gift to human society. Free-speech advocates typically claim that the value of unfettered expression outweighs any harm it might cause, offering assurances that any such harm will be minimal.
Pluralism The key to the invention of free speech was the recognition of pluralism—that, in any human population, there will be people with irreconcilably different understandings of the truth.
While free speech is not absolute in most societies, the qualifying restrictions are only those which constrict speech which may be deleterious to the social good.
Repressing speech has costs, but so does allowing it.
A mature way to judge the system would be to look at both sides of the ledger. Free speech can’t be reaffirmed by drowning out its opponents. It has to be defended as, in the words of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, “an experiment as all life is an experiment.”