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Presse Ethik

Perhaps you have already noticed that the “corridor of opinion”, i.e. what one is allowed to think and say without being labeled an “outsider” and dubbed with all kinds of friendly terms, has increasingly narrowed in recent years.

So-called “leading media” and the public broadcasters play a decisive role in this development. More and more often, we see that opinions that deviate from a predetermined narrative or reporting that questions this narrative fall victim to censorship on mainstream channels, or are hushed up from the outset.

But aren’t freedom of information and freedom of opinion important pillars of a free and democratic basic order? And doesn’t everyone have the right to access comprehensive, truthful information?

Just as doctors are bound by the Hippocratic Oath or the “Declaration of Geneva”, journalists are also bound by a code of honor, which is laid down in the so-called “Code of Ethics in Media”.

The “Code of Ethics in Media” requires, among other things:

Present meaningful news, accurate and separated from opinion.
Serve as a forum for the exchange of comment and criticism and to expand access to diverse points of view.
Project a representative picture of the constituent groups in society by avoiding stereotypes by including minority groups.
Clarify the goals and values of society; implicit was an appeal to avoid pandering to the lowest common denominator.
Give broad coverage of what was known about society.

(Hutchins Commission)

Are members of the press who fail to fulfill these important tasks possibly guilty?

In the so-called “corona pandemic”, the negative developments mentioned above have come to a head. This has allowed the narrative of the “killer virus threatening humanity, which can only be dealt with by vaccinating all 7.5 billion people on earth” to be cemented in people’s minds worldwide by creating fear and panic, blocking logical thinking and judgment and, incidentally, restricting or suspending important fundamental rights.

A quote from the Austrian writer Alfred Polgar (1873-1955) reads:

“People believe a lie they have heard a hundred times much more easily than a truth that is completely new to them.”

The American author Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) has already formulated the same thing in this way:

“It is easier to deceive people than to convince them that they have been deceived.”

Wahrheit Lüge

About us

Our contribution to overcoming this problem is to present to you on this website media that have fulfilled their journalistic mandate in recent years and months, have done good research and have reported critically.

The association “Mediziner und Wissenschaftler für Gesundheit, Freiheit und Demokratie e.V.”, MWGFD (Physicians and Scientists for Health, Freedom and Democracy, registered association) is the initiator and operator of this website. We are an association of physicians and other medically active persons with scientists who deal with the topics of health, freedom and democracy in research and teaching in order to serve the health and social well-being of the population. Further information on the MWGFD e.V. can be found on our website https://www.mwgfd.org/ (in German).