Cover Osteuropa 12/2010

In Osteuropa 12/2010

Truth and Democracy
Inalienable: Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press

Norbert Lammert


Deutsche Fassung

Abstract

There is no undisputable truth. The noblest task of the press is to remain aware of this insight and to maintain the preconditions for, and with that the vitality of, democracy – not with its own claims to truth, but with the struggle for and against claims to truth.

(Osteuropa 12/2010, pp. 171–176)