Today is #WorldPressFreedomDay and one cannot overstate its relevance to the #Greece mediascape.
In a country where there is wide distrust of the media (trust in the news overall stands at 30% after decades of undue influence by politicians & businessmen as per Reuters);
In a country where there is wide distrust of the media (trust in the news overall stands at 30% after decades of undue influence by politicians & businessmen as per Reuters);
where trust in newspapers as a source for the news stands at 13% (as per Palmos Analysis poll); where the relevant Reporters Without Borders’ entry starts with “Press freedom has suffered in Greece in 2020”, highlights censorship, arbitrariness, obstruction and violence
and awards it the 70th place in its Index of World Press Freedom; where the state broadcaster is overseen by the Deputy Minister to the PM; where a journalist of thirty years is forced to resign from one of the most respected newspapers (To Vima) after breaking the story
of the inadequate #Covid_19gr “system”; where *two* journalists (G. #Karaivaz and S. Giolias) have been murdered in the last 11 years and another one, @KostasVaxevanis, has just gone public with information he has obtained on a credible threat against his life;
where the sycophantic treatment reserved to the PM @kmitsotakis by a large part of the media (who have hailed him as Moses, The Elvis of the EU, Greek Kennedy, Hercules and a Cheetah, whilst his wife is being celebrated ad nauseam as The Ever-Chic) remains unrivalled...
In this country, then, “Information as a Public Good” -this year’s World Press Freedom Day theme- is of vital & fundamental importance.
Information and those who chase it, unearth it, verify it, connect it, structure it, convey it, explain it and defend it, must be cherished.
Information and those who chase it, unearth it, verify it, connect it, structure it, convey it, explain it and defend it, must be cherished.
“The special role of journalism in producing news as verified information in the public interest” is to be supported and safeguarded. Urgently.
In addressing the question “where do people go to get the news” in #Greece then, let us celebrate a new, younger generation
In addressing the question “where do people go to get the news” in #Greece then, let us celebrate a new, younger generation
of excellent investigative journalists, new outfits like @The_Manifold, @reporters_gr, @AthensLiveGr amongst others, brilliant freelancers, dedicated photojournalists & videojournalists who risk violence & obstruction when documenting information, as well as all those who fight
the good fight upholding their own high professional standards in difficult, suffocating, precarious and often dangerous circumstances.
They have our support!
They have our support!
Sources:
digitalnewsreport.org/survey/2020/gr…
m.tvxs.gr/mo/i/337768/f/…
rsf.org/en/greece
rsf.org/en/news/greek-…
un.org/en/civil-socie…
digitalnewsreport.org/survey/2020/gr…
m.tvxs.gr/mo/i/337768/f/…
rsf.org/en/greece
rsf.org/en/news/greek-…
un.org/en/civil-socie…
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