The Greek
government has shut down the public broadcaster ERT, calling it a "haven
of waste". Viewers watching the
news on the main TV channel saw the screens go to black late on Tuesday
evening.
All employees
have been suspended pending a re-organisation. Thousands of people held a
protest against the decision outside ERT headquarters. It is the latest move in rafts of spending
cuts and tax rises aimed at leading the country out of recession.
"ERT is a
case of an exceptional lack of transparency and incredible extravagance. This
ends now," government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou said earlier….To ReadMore….
My Take - This will be interesting to watch. All the news
was filtered through these government run organs. All the money originated
through the government. Conclusion? No one has a clue in Greece as to what is
really going on, which may explain why there is so much resistance to bringing
government spending under control. They’re socialists and naturally insist that
the government knows all and ‘is’ all. Socialists
have been spouting this claptrap forever and controlling the news forever. So now the failure of socialism is coming
home to roost and the people are demanding that they make good on their promises. Promises that could have never been kept,
because as Margaret Thatcher once said; “Eventually you run out of other people’s
money.”
The U.S. is facing the same crisis, and the Main Stream
Media has been misleading the public as badly as I’m sure the Greek media
did. The difference is the internet. The internet
has changed everything. This will be
interesting to watch because I get far more
hits from Germany, Russia, Bulgaria, and the Ukraine than I do from Greece. I
will be interested in seeing if that changes since Greeks will have to turn to
other sources to get their news.
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