Thread by @kostarvanitis

🔻I have been a journalist for 30 years and some of us today, cannot honor the #WorldPressFreedomDay with us. Their names are Daphne Caruana Galizia, Yorgos Karaivaz and many more. >>>

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@syrizaep @Left_EU

>>>We should call them by their name, those who gave their lives, in Ukraine & elsewhere. >>>

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@syrizaep @Left_EU

>>>There is a big question hanging over Europe: who controls who. Do the Media moguls exert control over political administrations? Or do the administrations actually impose policies?>>>

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@syrizaep @Left_EU

>>>Ever since Berlusconi’s victory in Italy, it was clear that the bell was tolling for someone, that financial interests have control over the media & political power along with it.>>>

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@syrizaep @Left_EU

>>>And this is, first and foremost, an issue of Democracy. Oligopolies and oligarchs, all across the continent. This is a growing problem, almost a new, extraordinary status quo in the media.>>>

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@syrizaep @Left_EU

>>>And as if that weren’t enough, from the dismissals and persecution of journalists, we now have their murders, the financial strangulation of non-systemic media...>>>

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@syrizaep @Left_EU

>>>since the oligarchs, law permitting, own the sum of the news production process, right down to the press outlets.>>>

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@syrizaep @Left_EU

>>>This is a most blatant overconcentration of power, which also creates a murky environment in which the foundational principle of the separation of powers is lost.>>>

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@syrizaep @Left_EU

>>>Monopolistic financial interests and power, media and political power, political power and justice. Tell me, what country springs to mind by this description? Hungary? Poland? Greece? Italy?>>>

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@syrizaep @Left_EU

>>>There seems to be a new order in Europe and we should be very serious about this. Let me be clear. Regarding the murder of journalists, our own was named Yiorgos Karaivaz.>>>

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@syrizaep @Left_EU

>>>In surveillance, in our case by the Νational Intelligence Agency, answering directly to the PM, our own victim is named Koukakis. Persecuted journalists; their names are Yianna Papadakou and Kostas Vaxevanis.>>>

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@syrizaep @Left_EU

>>>Let’s not forget about the intimidation, of those who dare to ask questions, by way of SLAPPs and the selective financial support to media outlets by the State, in our case, the infamous Petsas list.>>>

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@syrizaep @Left_EU

>>>For the protection of the people of the Press, for #PressFreedom, for #democracy, for our lost and murdered colleagues, for Tintin, the journalistic model we grew up with...>>>

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@syrizaep @Left_EU

>>>...there is only one thing to demand: Legislative action, now. Tintin himself would be hard pressed to find work in the current environment.🔻

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@syrizaep @Left_EU