Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Communications -
Journalism, Journalism Professions, grade: 1.0, language: English,
abstract: Always when an editorial office was rummaged; Always when
reproaches of the phone tapping or persecution of journalists arises;
Always then the discussion about the freedom of the press awakes and the
following questions arise: To what extent is it upheld and protected?
Are there borders? May the state interfere? If freedom of the press is
understood as a synonym for freedom of speech and mental freedom, it
wins a historically far-reaching dimension. The right of the freedom of
speech was considered in the Greek democracy and Roman republic as a
self-evident fact. On the other hand, for the first time the Roman law
of the Twelve Tables revealed qualifying regulations in 450 B.C.E.
Mockery poems and abusive poems were threatened in it even with the
punishment by death. A censorship was still unknown for the purposes of
our today's modern state right. In the following segment the basic
concepts and their definitions are cleared under the point "Basics".
Further, a representation of both countries Germany and Turkey takes
place. Consequently, the countries geographic situation and the state
form are closer explained and moreover a showing of the juridical basic
conditions occurs regarding to the freedom of the press of both
countries. In the third segment of the term paper the different
implementation of the freedom of the press in both countries is
revealed. On this occasion, a universal line is drawn with the help of
the research question and the thesis statement: Research question: Why
is the freedom of the press in Germany more guaranteed than in Turkey?
Thesis statement: The freedom of the press in Germany is more guaranteed
than in Turkey, because the Turkish government changes laws in the
Criminal Code over and over again or delete them even completely; apart
from the numerous restrictions in the constitution conce
