By Sarunas Cerniauskas
Lithuania doesn‘t face the kind of challenges to the freedom of speech that are very much visible in the examples of Poland or Hungary. However, several attempts to tamper with the legislation were recently undertaken.
By Jsx - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2832217
Probably the biggest challenge to the freedom of press was delivered by a person who is supposed to be the independent intermediary between the reporters and the people who are unhappy with the stories. Gražina Ramanauskaitė-Tiumenevienė, the inspector of journalist ethics, recently came up with a suggestion to broaden her own power over the media. In…
