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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8No doubt they were closed down because they actually aired critical pieces and I would suspect none of the commercial stations do anything of the sort.
AVAAZ is a dodgy "clicktivist" organisation backed by George Soros.
Some info here:
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/avaaz-org-and-...rors/
Is this the most dramatic thing to hit a national broadcaster since Conor Cruise O'Brien did you-know-what to RTE broadcasting in 1973?
One poster in ERT reads "the revolution will not be televised", many ERT workers are continuing to broadcast on Voice of Greece shortwave and broadband - government has cut all phonelines, workers remain resourceful to output through other channels.
We should not criticise too much the private channels because Greece has excellent market in printed and broadcaster news with many outlets, more diversity than most EU countries, but earlier commenter is right that private TV and radio is less critical and lighter weight news cover.
Today Thursday is a day of national strike with many protests at the ERT offices, public squares and outside the government. People of all parties have fears that this kind of a silencing is like the bad days of the seventies when the government broadcasted with tanks in the streets to underline their messages.
Perhaps AVAAZ are just jumping on the bandwagon here. A lot of these "sponsored" movements setup by leading capitalists and foreign intelligence agencies go with the idea that when the horses have bolted, to run with them and by getting out in front, then they can carefully stir them off in the "safe" directions. In a sense what they do is rather the wave rather than oppose it.
Greece, to a greater extent than Ireland, is a country in crisis. People are suffering, unable to pay debts to banks, to keep their cars or some people who can not even feed their families. The Greek people need solidarity and support for real solutions to this crisis.
The Greek people do not need AVAAZ is this or that arguments, they do not need Jean-Paul Philippot (the European Broadcasting Union) telling the capitalist bosses in Europe to "order" Samaras to change his mind on this decision. (Yes, Samaras should change his mind, must change his mind, but not because threats from outside.)
The only thing saving many Greeks from real poverty and starvation is that everyone in the cities is sharing the same fate, everyone is poor and everyone can not pay the banks. ERT has been mostly a voice of reasoned opinion and a channel for debate about the future of Greece, when other broadcastings are about shopping, music and famous faces. It even has some good political comedy, in which M. Samaras is one of the running jokes, but also M. Venizelos was a running - or even limping - joke too.
Thanks to generosity and support of the European Broadcasting Union the news of NET, from ERT Thessaloniki, is being broadcast since yesterday evening.
Despite government orders and cutting of the broadband, NET news from ERT Thessaloniki continues to be produced by the suspended employees and sent to EBU. The programme is on Hotbird 13A (Europe), APSTAR 7 (Asia) and Intelsat 19 / Optus D2 (Australia)
The Administrative Court of Athens has just (Monday evening) declared in favour of suspending the decision of Samaras. All the talks between parties are now not relevant - ERT may continue broadcasting. All staff - we hope - are not any longer suspended.
This is temporary. The court decision is until ERT is replaced by nERiT, when Samaras plans can resume to sack all the state employees and invite them to apply for which of their own jobs still remain, at lower wages.
(nERiT is a scheme worthy of a child, ERT but it is [n]ew and it has [i]nternet, makes nERiT)
Rebranding - by a five year old child (with business plans to match)