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Greek Prime Minister Folds, Will Restart Public Broadcaster
Greece took year after year after year of Troika punishment stoically, if with the occasional tear gas-puncutated celebration of 60%+ youth unemployment. But when it came to taking away the free, public TV... Well, as we predicted:
You may take away the Greek pensions, but you will never take away their TV
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 12, 2013
So it would be:
Greek Prime Minister Samaras offers to allow the immediate restart of ERT broadcasting: government source #breaking
— Reuters World (@ReutersWorld) June 17, 2013
Moral of the story? Despotic, technocratic unelected commissions can take away a people's pensions, but when one takes away the same people's ability to watch Kim Kardashian, prepare to reap the whirlwind.
Also, know your priorities.
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yay
ruined the country completely, sold it out.
but yeah at last the public tv station is going on air again.
how about giving out some free heroine and beer?
pathetic.
Fractional reserve banking + Plato = Modern Greece
(It's a game ... Spot the negative value!)
Well, there's nothing else that's as effective at delivering propaganda.
The Tylers understand the ERT closure issues at a very superficial level. Either that, or they are starting to talk out of both sides of their mouth where democracy is desired in one nation but abhorred in the next.
A nation without a national television/radio can not function as a democracy. That's the main issue with the sudden closure. If it is inefficient, reform it and reengineer it, don't just shut it. Only totalitarian regimes do that.
Tylers get a clue.
A nation without a national television/radio can not function as a democracy.
I realize that americans don't learn world history... and that I'm an american... but I'm thinking that democracy was around before television...
I know! What a hoot! Who invented that Democracy thing anyway?!? Oh yeah, the Greeks...
How about-- A nation, which has only private channels (which serve the interests of the very rich) and no public channels, cannot function as a democracy.
FYi-- Greece is something like #73 in freedom of press. The older people and some others in Greece who do not get their news online are getting a very distorted picture of what is happening. I know that this can even be said about the US, but there it is more extreme.
taraxias:
It appears you are unable to catch the subtle sarcasm of this story's positioning.
You are taking life entirely too seriously: go get laid tonight . . .
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I get plenty of pussy but thanks for your concern.
The Tylers are erroneously suggesting that the Greek public will tolerate all the austerity they've suffered but will not go without........television.
If that's subtle sarcasm about anything other than giving readers the wrong impression of what's really going on in Greece, then it's not more pussy I need, it's help entering an alternate universe.
I know the Tylers have built up a cult following on here but some of you need to accept that they often get things wrong despite the "as predicted" bullshit they keep repeating.
They simply missed what the fight over the closure of ERT was all about, plain and simple.
Taraxias you are right. Things are not totally what they seem. For one, I know from various sources, that many other broadcast workers saw the writing on the wall about their own jobs and pay levels and freaked out.
The reality is that this broadcaster will crumble in the end as will everything else in Greece.
The powers to be are simply keeping her alive until they cn asset strip her or as a friend says, harvest her vital organs.
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"A nation without a national television/radio can not function as a democracy."
I am fairly sure that this is one of THE dumbest things that I have ever read....anywhere. I kinda wish I could unread it, but alas, I cannot. I need to go read a book to re-establish some now defunct brain cells.
The problem with having a national TV station is that it quickly becomes a mouthpiece of the political Establishment to spread propaganda and other bollix. Without doubt the most professional TV station in this dubious position is the BBC.
BBC = British Bullsh*t Corporation ... was founded specifically for propaganda purposes in the radio era
But the Brits do it a bit more subtly than the Americans
There are actually 2 versions of CNN news in English ... we Europeans get a toned-down one, Americans get the full-strength propaganda jackboot
Can anyone confirm that Kim Kardashian is featured on Greek TV?
Have you seen "My big fat kardashian Greek wedding?" Its a new reality series.
I think its might actually be titled, 'My Big, Fat, Greek-Kardashian Ass'. That thing could be its own fucking island...
Well, not national TV for that matter. You would be lucky to catch a boob flick in a late night film on their shut down channels.
We do however sport a pretty hot Tourism Deputy Minister. Check her out.
Did you mean Angela Gerekou, Deputy Tourism Minister and Playboy 1996 centerfold? Because she quit the Tourism ministry in 2010 when her seventy-year-old husband was caught evading taxes.
No, I mean the current one. Hot stuff.
What an amazingly screwed up world we live in. It's television for fucks sake you idiots! Do you really believe they put anything on there that doesn't try to manipulate you in one way or another? It's not like they broadcast anything worth a shit anyways.
Hey! Will you all just shut the hell up?!? WWE is on and its the grudge-fuck match of the century between The Debt Brotha' From Anotha' Motha' and Mad Vlad, The Wrasslin' Russian! This is being broadcast live from the 'Hate At The G-8' tounament in Ireland. Media broadcast coverage is provided by the NSA!
We get Greek ERT television here in Brussels on our cable
It is not bad ... including old Greek movies, and often cultural music shows that are enjoyable, no understanding of Greek needed
The shows of local traditional culture and music are a comfort in difficult times ... yes it is the idiot box and the news propaganda box too ... but the cultural stuff on European TV redeems it
Seriously, you're telling us to watch someone else's culture rather than live our own? No, thanks.
I understand it's educational and all that. But that's just passive acceptance. We don't need the programmers to determine what is and isn't of cultural value.
+99.9!
sounds like a terrence mckenna video i just watched last night, reclaim your own mind / reclaim you own culture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eu9GfHCpVo&feature=player_embedded
well worth the 2 minute viewing time.
what a brilliant man mckenna was, amazing what a little psilocybin can do.
well, ok, maybe not a *little*....
I bet the next round of payroll checks bounce.....they may be open...but the transfer from the government bank account might not happen as scheduled...we will see...they could have fundraisers forever now.....get that phone booth set up...wonder what Jerry Lewis is doing....he used to be good at that....
that would actually be a positive.
instead of being dependent on government handouts, they would broadcast material demanded by the free market.
every time a brick in the wall falls away, we are a little more free.
Zerohedge has over 150K followers and Reuters World has roughly 16K. There is hope.
Yeah, bitchez.
Samaras is like Barroso; he has the oligarchy finger up his ...so he is liable to cave in often.
Its awful to feel the NSA fingering you day n nite.
" I am not a puppet, I am more a heartless clone, a zombie for Oligarchy; something without a soul; like Barroso.
the only question I ask : When do I get my next bank transfer in Schweizer land?
Puleeze, don't pull the plug on me until you have paid me my bonus AND the xtra costs of keeping ERT afloat.
Everything has a price in this crazy world; and the greeks are dry to save ERT. Its time we sold some more islands and land to the Oligarchs.
Let this be a lesson :only government propaganda from now on and make them believe it.
When your economics and and metrics are on full "borrow-foreva", every effort at fiscal discipline is a charade, begging to be kicked in the face.
Gestures are made, protests rise, principaled opposition is revealed to be the refugee of stooges. Greece (and the rest of the political west) are revealed as adrenaline junkies who can't find, because they don't want to find, the brake.
The three stages of the Greek people.
The first stage was the Spoilt Stage when governments were buying votes and people were gladly seliing their vote.
The next, which is the current stage, is that of being INDIGNANT and in DENIAL about what has happened to them.
Once they hit the third stage of REALITY actually sinking right in, (not of their plight but what it will take to survive as a nation) then they might see some change.
I am afraid that their reaction to the closure of the public broadcaster confirms they are at least a year from grasping the full calamity they are facing ahead.
got circuses!
now just need bread...