Yanis Varoufakis — ERT (Greek state tv-radio) is dead: A blacklisted person’s lament

A few hours ago, the Greek government announced that state television and radio channels would be silenced at midnight. No public debate, no debate in Parliament, no warning. Nothing. ERT, the Greek version of the BBC, will simply fold its tent and steal into the night. As probably the only Greek commentator to have been blacklisted by ERT over the past two years, I feel I have the moral authority to cry out against ERT’s passing. To shout from the rooftops that its murder by our troika-led government is a crime against public media that all civilised people, the world over, should rise up against.

Yanis Varoufakis
ERT (Greek state tv-radio) is dead: A blacklisted person’s lament