#Greece: when soc media “strategy” goes stupidly wrong.
Embattled Athens Mayor @KBakoyannis (the PM’s nephew) leaks yet another grandiose plan for the city, after the quasi universal rejection of his last one.
Promoting it on Twitter are dozens of accounts created in Sept/Oct 21,
endlessly tweeting the same tweet(s) w/the hashtag #αναπλαση_πανεπιστημιου, whilst otherwise engaging in troll-like anti-opposition (Syriza) propaganda.

It’s both hilarious and pathetic.
And probably very expensive!
On the serious side of it however, I guess this blatant idiocy will (as many before it) be shrugged off and ignored as if it never happened.

I wonder what would happen if, say, the @MayorofLondon’s comms team had dared use trolls and fake accounts to promote a plan 🤷🏻‍♀️

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30 Sep
Θρεντ για την απονομή δικαιοσύνης

Η 33χρονη Σάρα Εβεραρντ απήχθη, βιάσθηκε και δολοφονήθηκε ενώ γυρνούσε σπίτι της στο Ν. Λονδίνο στις 3 Μαρτίου ‘21.
Ο δολοφόνος της που ήταν εν ενεργεία αστυνομικός την «συνέλαβε» & της πέρασε χειροπέδες πριν την οδηγήσει σε ερημικό σημείο όπου
και διέπραξε το έγκλημα.
Σήμερα, στα δικαστήρια του Old Bailey, ο δικαστής του επέβαλλε την σπανιότατη ποινή ισοβίων Whole Life Order -δηλαδή πραγματικά ισόβια κάθειρξη. Με άλλα λόγια, θα πεθάνει στη φυλακή.

Αυτή είναι η αυστηρότερη ποινή (εφόσον η ποινή του θανάτου καταργήθηκε
πριν δεκαετίες) και επιφυλάσσεται για τους χειρότερους εγκληματίες όπως πολλαπλούς δολοφόνους, δολοφόνους αστυνομικών, απαγωγείς ή σαδιστές δολοφόνους παιδιών ή ακόμα ιδεολογικούς δολοφόνους.

Είναι εξαιρετικά ενδιαφέρον το σκεπτικό που οδήγησε σε αυτήν την ποινή:
Read 7 tweets
7 Jul
#Greece: the utter hypocrisy & foolishness of the very people tasked with protecting Greeks from #Covid_19GR is today exposed by @EFSYNTAKTON & journalist A. Psarra. On 22/10/20, 2 weeks prior to the country going into lockdown & whilst arrivals are strictly controlled,
the Civil Protection officer in charge at the Athens airport is informed via SMS by one of his officers that visiting basketball team Fenerbahce includes 4 people with a fever.
The dialogue is astounding:

“Four people escorting Fener have a fever”
“Let them through”
“Are you sure?”
“It’s an order by Hardalias, get on with it [and keep it] on the Pakistani phone”

For context: N. Hardalias is the Deputy Minister of Civil Protection & Crisis Management -the man tasked with fighting the pandemic. “Pakistani phone” refers to an unofficial phone
Read 10 tweets
3 May
Σήμερα είναι η Παγκόσμια Ημέρα Ελευθεροτυπίας και η σημασία της, ειδικά για την Ελλάδα και τα ΜΜΕ της είναι όλως ιδιαίτερη.
Στη χώρα όπου, μετά από δεκαετίες διαπλοκής, μόνο το 30% εμπιστεύεται τις ειδήσεις (Reuters), στη χώρα όπου μόνο το 13% εμπιστεύεται τις εφημερίδες για
την ενημέρωσή του (Palmos Analysis), στη χώρα την οποία οι Reporters Without Borders κατατάσσουν στην 70η θέση του πίνακα Διεθνούς Ελευθεροτυπίας μιλώντας για λογοκρισία, αυθαιρεσίες, ακόμα και βία, στη χώρα όπου η κρατική ρ/τ και το πρακτορείο ειδήσεων επιβλέπονται από τον
Υφυπουργό στον ΠΘ, στη χώρα όπου δημοσιογράφος της εφημεριδας Το Βήμα εξωθείται σε παραίτηση γιατί αποκάλυψε το ανεπαρκές σύστημα καταγραφής κρουσμάτων #COVID19gr, στη χώρα που μετράει δύο δολοφονημενους δημοσιογράφους, τον Γ. #καραϊβάζ και τον Σ. Γκιόλια μέσα σε μια δεκαετία
Read 8 tweets
3 May
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);
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
Read 10 tweets
21 Feb
It feels distinctly like a watershed moment for #Greece.
What started as the whiff of a scandal has now escalated into a full-blown political crisis at the most inopportun moment, after a string of PR disasters involving PM himself & whilst the lockdown-fatigued public
1/
mood is neither generous nor charitable.
Celebrated theatre personality N. Lignadis, the (now ex) director of the National Theatre, a direct appointment to the position and an integral part of the Athenian elite is first publicly accused of, and later arrested and charged
2/
with multiple counts of rape inv. minors.
Minister Lina Mendoni who appointed him to the post after cancelling the hiring process that had already been set in motion by her predecessor, is accused of dragging her feet in the matter. She calls a disastrous press conference
3/
Read 9 tweets
8 Feb
Thread on staggering #media_manipulation scandal involving the #Greek public broadcaster @ERTsocial.
Greek journalist @ChristosXanthak broke the story in a tweet a short while ago
1/
It seems that @ERTsocial ran a report about the PM’s tour of the island of Ikaria yesterday during its noon bulletin -after the uproar and general outcry however, the following notice was posted in the Production Room to ensure this “mistake” was not repeated.
2/
The note reads:
“SOS SOS
To fellow producers
We don’t run (a) photo(s) or video of @kmitsotakis on the veranda of the Stefanadis residence (lunch) in Ikaria.
Also, we only run footage of Lignadis on his own, not with others.
Thank you”
3/
Read 7 tweets

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