Freedom of press and the Charlie Hebdo

Abstract

On March 18th, French Sociologist Dominique Wolton made the inaugural year address at Casper Libero. His lecture “Freedom of press and the Charlie Hebdo” focused on the problems and demands of free speech, mainly based on the killing of French journalists from the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper because of the publication of charges of Mohammed. Wolton is Research Director of the CNRS, the French Council for Scientific Research, and the publisher of Hermes, a high standard academic journal. This article is a transcription of his address.