JURISPRUDENTIAL ANALYSIS OF THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST BETWEEN NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE MEDIA: EXPLORING ALTERNATE APPROACHES FOR NATIONAL INTEREST

The media is under going unprecedented revolution. Both the conventional and new media, in the exercise of their acclaimed freedom draws serious concern for, and threat to national interest. This also have posed challenges to the law. The paper highlighted the old and current doctrinal boundaries of the media and the trending aspects of negative impact such as news framing, hate speeches and other bias which if left unchecked poses serious threat to national interest and public policy. The paper concluded that new stiffer boundaries to media freedom be upheld through a system of balance that flavours national interest and public policy. National interest should also be flavoured with relative national element not so called objectivity of global regime.