Well it was “world press freedom day” yesterday. Another of those endless days commemorating endless things from great to no importance.
Of interest, however, Greece comes very low in the charts!! Down near Lesotho where it comes to freedom of the press.
Hardly a surprise when ALL the mainstream media are nothing but crude propaganda outlets for the government.
And in reward for services rendered at least one prominent propaganda perpetrator, Maria Spyraki of Mega Channel has been put on the New Democracy ticket for a seat in the European Parliament.
She has this distinct claim to fame (among many others): She knew, she claims, about the plane loads of Euros that were being secretly flown into Athens to keep the ATMs flowing in the run up to the 2012 elections when the Greek electorate was being threatened and terrorised with Grexit. She knew this was going on, but kept mum about it.
Why? One has to wonder. Isn’t a journalist supposed to make public things of such great importance? Had the Greek public known this they would probably have realised very well that the Grexit threat was hollow and voted very differently, wouldn?t they now?
There is a tweet going round that says A journalist should print what others do not want printed. That is his role. All the rest is sheer propaganda!!!