I hope too. I'm ridiculously optimistic, despite having experienced things that should, by all means, make me the biggest pessimist. I hope this is going to end up better for them than it did for us.
Hmm, I see what you mean, with the way the media portray events. And, you know, I don't really get it, I agree with you that this creates most of the problems. Official news should be objective, of course, but when it comes to matters like this... It's like someone writing about, say, a murder and avoiding mentioning that murder is wrong. Fraud is a crime, a civil law violation, and it's against the most basic rules of democracy, it's as simple as that, so I find it completely ridiculous when the media try to avoid blatantly stating that there's an injustice going on there.
Here, the media weren't just being subtle, they were right out lying and condemning the 'riots'. The protests weren't represented like that only overseas, it was exactly the same in Greek media, and that's the same thing. I'd go to a protest in the morning, and I'd see a completely distorted, turned-around version of it in the evening news.
And all this was more than half the problem, actually. Because you can put up with police violence and tear gas and politicians lying when you have the support of the rest of the country, and of people from overseas. But it's next to impossible when they turn everything around, no one knows what's really happening, and you just end up trying to prove you're not an elephant (do you have that expression in English?)
Hmm, I see what you mean, with the way the media portray events. And, you know, I don't really get it, I agree with you that this creates most of the problems. Official news should be objective, of course, but when it comes to matters like this... It's like someone writing about, say, a murder and avoiding mentioning that murder is wrong. Fraud is a crime, a civil law violation, and it's against the most basic rules of democracy, it's as simple as that, so I find it completely ridiculous when the media try to avoid blatantly stating that there's an injustice going on there.
Here, the media weren't just being subtle, they were right out lying and condemning the 'riots'. The protests weren't represented like that only overseas, it was exactly the same in Greek media, and that's the same thing. I'd go to a protest in the morning, and I'd see a completely distorted, turned-around version of it in the evening news.
And all this was more than half the problem, actually. Because you can put up with police violence and tear gas and politicians lying when you have the support of the rest of the country, and of people from overseas. But it's next to impossible when they turn everything around, no one knows what's really happening, and you just end up trying to prove you're not an elephant (do you have that expression in English?)
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