Media and Hate Speech: Ethical and Legal Considerations

Abstract

This paper is a self-affirmative discourse on the concept and types of hate speech as it relates to the media and presented ways to address the menace through ethical and legal frameworks. The paper was anchored on Scanlon‟s Contractual Theory and it adopted the discursive approach to advance its arguments. It argued that hate speech is a crime and that it is on the rise. It was recommended that stakeholders in the media industry should work together to tame the monster of hate speech through ethical and legal means.