In recent weeks the Greek media have undertaken to create – as usual, a climate of terror in order to pressurise society. They have attacked the Finance Minister, the Speaker of the Parliament, and ultimately the citizens of the country.
Yet however much they succeeded in creating a parallel virtual world, they couldn’t influence what happened when viewers turned off their TVs, which had told them of shortages in supermarkets and in petrol stations, and anger in ATM queues; when those same viewers took a walk in the real world, they saw a rather different reality.
The terrorism, the doctrine of shock and sensationalism, and their distortion of events didn’t work. Society was not terrified.
People didn’t believe the photos they showed of grannies at the ATMs, which were taken from South Africa. They weren’t terrified. The pensioners that the channels found to interview were all outraged. Society was not.
ThePressProject, which calmly and neutrally broadcast the developments of the last weeks, withstood the onslaught alongside the Greek people, and we were rewarded with two million visitors a day.
The terror did not work
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We believe that today's result is also a victory for us
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