Dear Greece please invite us to EU so we will be worst country in EU about of freedom of press.
Note: this comment is just joke intended.
Have you checked Hungary lately, I’m here watching the tv and it’s unbelievable what is happening here , they straight up lying about everything mainly about Brussels
Don’t understand. In Hungary journalists are not killed, threatened or intimidated like in other EU countries. You may find all outlets from the left to the right printed and online. So why is this poor ranking?
How is this calculated? You can say literally anything in Greece
How is this possible when everyone knows everyone and everything in every community? I mean, gossip is the national news.
> Greece now ranks 107th, right behind Qatar and Thailand
> performing worse than countries such as Niger, Lesotho and Haiti
Yea because the situation of press freedom in Greece is similar to that in Qatar and Niger… Seriously. Reporters Without Borders have lost all credibility these last years.
In Cyprus they come and take your PC if you make a joke against a politician in power
I would say Hungary is pretty close
Strange how it was Greece where the European civilization and democracy were born and it scores the lowest for press freedom index
Well, if you’re worse than Hungary in press freedom, you’ve really made it.
Really? Worse than Hungary?
You have to be really special to beat Poland and Hungary
As a Hungarian, I seriously doubt it 😀
> The main reasons for Greece’s lackluster score include arbitrary surveillance of journalists by intelligence agencies using the Predator spyware
Uhum, and in which country is that _not_ the case?
We’re definitely terrible in this sense, but how are we below Qatar?
There have been far-right newspapers who are calling every PM a rapist, a pedophile or a combination of both.
I would assume if in Qatar someone published a newspaper calling the Emir such names, they would not be walking around free,right?
Or Haiti, that has no functioning government and the country is run by criminal gangs, literally.
Jesus that is saying something in current EU.
Whait what about Hungary?
Behind Qatar, Lesotho and Niger yeah sure. Any NGO that has this kind of ranking (as well as placing the Netherlands lower than Middle Eastern countries in regards to reporters’ safety) is bullshit.
I’m Greek, and it’s true
Allow us in, if you want to get rid of the bad fame komşu.
Hungary: Allow me to introduce myself
But still doing well in the yogurt category despite strong competition from Iceland.
Is Malta a joke to them?
Really, not Hungary, not Poland are they serious?)
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Some peak moments of Greek journalism
1) our prime minister waving the opposition newspaper (that is a historical leftist newspaper and was BANNED only during the Junta) in the European parliament to prove that there is freedom of press because it still exists
2) Journalists Right after the tragic train accident (literally the same day) trying to shift the blame from the government in the most humiliating way for them. Like talking about a sacrifice of the dead people to have better trains.
3) After the wiretapping scandal the prime minister did a (prerecorded) interview (that journalist magically erased hundreds of thousands of debt after), where he first said that journalists were attacking him ordered by their bosses (he was wiretapping them) . And right after talked about how free our journalism is and we’re not actually 107th.
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Dear Greece please invite us to EU so we will be worst country in EU about of freedom of press.
Note: this comment is just joke intended.
Have you checked Hungary lately, I’m here watching the tv and it’s unbelievable what is happening here , they straight up lying about everything mainly about Brussels
Don’t understand. In Hungary journalists are not killed, threatened or intimidated like in other EU countries. You may find all outlets from the left to the right printed and online. So why is this poor ranking?
How is this calculated? You can say literally anything in Greece
How is this possible when everyone knows everyone and everything in every community? I mean, gossip is the national news.
> Greece now ranks 107th, right behind Qatar and Thailand
> performing worse than countries such as Niger, Lesotho and Haiti
Yea because the situation of press freedom in Greece is similar to that in Qatar and Niger… Seriously. Reporters Without Borders have lost all credibility these last years.
In Cyprus they come and take your PC if you make a joke against a politician in power
I would say Hungary is pretty close
Strange how it was Greece where the European civilization and democracy were born and it scores the lowest for press freedom index
Well, if you’re worse than Hungary in press freedom, you’ve really made it.
Really? Worse than Hungary?
You have to be really special to beat Poland and Hungary
As a Hungarian, I seriously doubt it 😀
> The main reasons for Greece’s lackluster score include arbitrary surveillance of journalists by intelligence agencies using the Predator spyware
Uhum, and in which country is that _not_ the case?
We’re definitely terrible in this sense, but how are we below Qatar?
There have been far-right newspapers who are calling every PM a rapist, a pedophile or a combination of both.
I would assume if in Qatar someone published a newspaper calling the Emir such names, they would not be walking around free,right?
Or Haiti, that has no functioning government and the country is run by criminal gangs, literally.
Jesus that is saying something in current EU.
Whait what about Hungary?
Behind Qatar, Lesotho and Niger yeah sure. Any NGO that has this kind of ranking (as well as placing the Netherlands lower than Middle Eastern countries in regards to reporters’ safety) is bullshit.
I’m Greek, and it’s true
Allow us in, if you want to get rid of the bad fame komşu.
Hungary: Allow me to introduce myself
But still doing well in the yogurt category despite strong competition from Iceland.
Is Malta a joke to them?
Really, not Hungary, not Poland are they serious?)
Όλα πάνε σύμφωνα με το σχέδιο λοιπόν
Some peak moments of Greek journalism
1) our prime minister waving the opposition newspaper (that is a historical leftist newspaper and was BANNED only during the Junta) in the European parliament to prove that there is freedom of press because it still exists
2) Journalists Right after the tragic train accident (literally the same day) trying to shift the blame from the government in the most humiliating way for them. Like talking about a sacrifice of the dead people to have better trains.
3) After the wiretapping scandal the prime minister did a (prerecorded) interview (that journalist magically erased hundreds of thousands of debt after), where he first said that journalists were attacking him ordered by their bosses (he was wiretapping them) . And right after talked about how free our journalism is and we’re not actually 107th.