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Raymond Snoddy wrote on Mediatel.co.uk's
Newsline
on ERT's closure. The opinion piece also talked about how the BBC could have a similar fate and a brief IBA mention:
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http://mediatel.co.uk/newsline/2013/06/12/only-arrogance-and-stupidity-could-have-closed-down-greeces-state-broadcaster/
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It is still by any standards a remarkable mixture of arrogance and stupidity to close down the national broadcaster, apparently as part of this sorry process. What sort of democracy is it where such a thing could happen without debate or warning and suddenly the screens go blank as transmitters are switched off one by one?
Whatever the scale of the problem you can be sure that closing down ERT, however inefficient it may or may not be, is not part of any solution.
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Whether it is in Greece, Turkey or the UK, the principle of broadcasting in the public interest - and at a scale to make a difference in the marketplace - has got to be defended, however challenging the task. And this applies not only to opponents such as inept Greek or Turkish politicians but also to George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Whatever the scale of the problem you can be sure that closing down ERT, however inefficient it may or may not be, is not part of any solution.
[.....]
Whether it is in Greece, Turkey or the UK, the principle of broadcasting in the public interest - and at a scale to make a difference in the marketplace - has got to be defended, however challenging the task. And this applies not only to opponents such as inept Greek or Turkish politicians but also to George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
http://mediatel.co.uk/newsline/2013/06/12/only-arrogance-and-stupidity-could-have-closed-down-greeces-state-broadcaster/
