04.10.2014 - 20:11 [ Truthout ]

Twelve Years Before ERT‘s Shutdown, a Dark Chapter in Greece‘s Media History

This is the third in a series of articles that will chronicle the long history of corruption, lawlessness, and censorship in Greece‘s media and journalism landscapes. This is a situation that has worsened in recent years in the midst of the country‘s severe economic crisis, but which has a deeply-rooted history in the political landscape of Greece. Part Three follows below, while the remaining articles in this series, which will cover aspects such as blogging and the internet, social media, journalism and news reporting, economic corruption, and the shutdown of national public broadcaster ERT, will be published in Truthout in the coming weeks.