Greek media are dependent

Columnist Nikos Bakounakis analyses in the left-leaning daily To Vima the causes of the media crisis in Greece: "Here the crisis is different because the entrepreneurial spirit of the press is having a very hard time. Its defining feature is its dependence. You don't need to publish many facts to prove that many media survive only thanks to state-financed advertising. And all journalistic principles - like the famous principle of objectivity - are based on the (economic) independence of the press. … There are other cardinal sins. One is the opinion journalism that is predominant in TV news programmes. This opinion journalism naturally has nothing to do with information."

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