One of
the worst moments of Greece in the post-junta period
One year
from the announcement of the Hellenic Public Broadcaster (ERT)
shutdown today. It came completely unexpectedly by the Greek
governmental representative Simos Kedikoglou. With an incredibly
arrogant style which refers directly to a representative of a fascist
regime, mister "Goebbels" of the domestic governmental
troika (now transformed in two-party coalition after withdrawal of
Dimokratiki Aristera), announced the extermination - in just one day
- of ERT, and got rid of its 2656 employees, in order to satisfy the
outside troika lenders - who demanded more and more blood – and the
domestic big media owners directly connected for years with the
two-party establishment PASOK and Nea Dimokratia who brought country
in this mess, in order to serve exclusively their own interests.
As it
happened:
Journalists
and workers continued to broadcast in a self-management experiment
until November 7 of the same year, when police invaded at the ERT
headquarters to force journalists stop broadcasting:
Many
journalists went to work in the new "public" TV, now called
NERIT, which is clearly a tool of government propaganda. It is
characteristic that there are no opposition voices in this government
creation, as the main opposition party SYRIZA, as well as other
opposition parties like Independent Greeks, have chosen to exclude
this channel in order to avoid legalizing its creation.
Many
journalists from ERT3, the other Hellenic Public TV channel are still
broadcasting from Thessaloniki headquarters, only through internet,
as they've chosen not to become the mouthpieces of government
propaganda:
From
the archive:
EBU stops its support to the Hellenic Public Broadcaster: Another victory for the neoliberal dictatorship
Today:
Four-hour
work stoppage from 12:00 to 16:00 Gr. time, will be held on
Wednesday, June 11, in the media with the first anniversary of the
"black" in ERT.
Federations
and associations are scheduled a rally outside the offices of the
Athens Journalists' Union (ESIEA) and march to the Ministry of
Finance. On the same day at 19:00 Gr. time, a great concentration
will be held outside the Radiomegaro of Agia Paraskevi (former headquarters of ERT, currently NERIT's), where the
leaders of opposition parties and government representatives will
speak.
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