1/ AMNA, the 🇬🇷state-owned news agency, has a unique ability to make events go unreported – and therefore effectively not to have happened.
Its role is crucial because the business model of *hundreds* of 🇬🇷 websites is based solely on the reproduction of its alerts.
A thread 🧵
Its role is crucial because the business model of *hundreds* of 🇬🇷 websites is based solely on the reproduction of its alerts.
A thread 🧵
https://twitter.com/damomac/status/1601556998126186497
2/ As months-long, well-documented investigations on the #pushbacks of asylum-seekers were published by credible foreign media, AMNA maintained silence.
It does not take the same attitude when the same outlets ...
@we_are_solomon @VoxEurop
wearesolomon.com/mag/accountabi…
It does not take the same attitude when the same outlets ...
@we_are_solomon @VoxEurop
wearesolomon.com/mag/accountabi…
3/ ... publish short articles praising the beaches of a 🇬🇷 island - these are often grounds for an alert that is then republished on hundreds of websites.
In this op-ed published by @we_are_solomon & @VoxEurop we present 2 examples of @amna_news unique ability to curate reality.
In this op-ed published by @we_are_solomon & @VoxEurop we present 2 examples of @amna_news unique ability to curate reality.
4/ In November 2021, @washingtonpost reporter Lally Weymouth interviewed the 🇬🇷 prime minister.
When AMNA republished the interview, the parts where the journalist had called on #Mitsotakis to roll back a problematic anti-fake-news law his government had brought in were missing.
When AMNA republished the interview, the parts where the journalist had called on #Mitsotakis to roll back a problematic anti-fake-news law his government had brought in were missing.
5/ Greek readers never learned this had happened, although #Mitsotakis did later admit that this was a law that the government had misjudged.
But, the most enlightening example of AMNA’s role brings us to the coverage of @RSF_inter annual index by the state agency.
But, the most enlightening example of AMNA’s role brings us to the coverage of @RSF_inter annual index by the state agency.
6/In 2022, #Greece was ranked 108th out of 180 countries worldwide in the annual Reporters Without Borders (#RSF) index.
Having fallen 38 places from the previous year, Greece came last in Europe.
Having fallen 38 places from the previous year, Greece came last in Europe.
7/ Arguably it takes real *effort* to report on the global ranking without mentioning that Greece was now last in Europe – especially if one is reporting *inside* Greece.
But the editors of AMNA did just that.
wearesolomon.com/mag/accountabi…
But the editors of AMNA did just that.
wearesolomon.com/mag/accountabi…
8/ Its readers were informed about the problematic state of press freedom in countries such as Russia and China – but heard no reference whatsoever to their own country.
@VoxEurop @we_are_solomon
voxeurop.eu/en/elegy-press…
@VoxEurop @we_are_solomon
voxeurop.eu/en/elegy-press…
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