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³MEDIA DIVERSITY AND WHY IT MATTERS´ G. ALAN CROSBIE  Monday, 6 
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February, 2012.
 
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Ladies and Gentlemen,Freedom of speech, freedom of expression ± we allapprove of them.We don¶t always remember that freedom to makeup our own minds ± each one of us individually ±  by hoovering up different streams of information,is key to needing
 
freedom of speech.Think about it. If there¶s general consensus andeverybody believes what everybody else believes,and we¶re all literally singing off the same hymnsheet, then freedom of speech stops being soimportant. One can speak for all.
 
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But if we want a diverse society, where youdisagree with me but ± like Voltaire ± will defendto the death my right to articulate what youdisagree with ± then we need different strands of information reaching us.Different ideas.Data that¶s prioritised differently.Different interpretations.Different slants.When we talk about diversity in media, we need tomove away from talking about the vehicles thatdeliver the information, as if 
they
constituteddiversity.
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