You can watch a full recording of our first Media Democracy Festival lunchtime debate involving Grace Blakeley, Noni Makuyana and Mike Berry on our YouTube channel here. The event was first streamed on Wednesday 3 June 2020. … [Read more...]
Live from Greece: The media and austerity
by Lee Salter What is happening in Greece right now is a microcosm of the relationship between neoliberalism and democracy. A government has been elected whose main platform was to put people before profit and, despite the fact that it had enormous popular support, international financiers have ensured that its platform cannot be realised. Whilst the relation between … [Read more...]
Not a Local Drama
by Katherine Sarikakis This article was written in response to the Greek government's shutdown, under the pretence of austerity, of its public broadcaster ERT in June 2013, and in light of the huge opposition to this attack on democracy. The drama in the ERT case is that the many domestic and international voices against its forced closure are met with the total absence … [Read more...]