While on the islands, I had a break from the ongoing turmoil going on in Athens. That ended the minute I stepped onto the ferry Wednesday to head back to the city. The televisions were turned to news stations showing the thousands upon thousands of people crowded around Parliament.
I had been trying while I was gone to keep up with what was going on, but found it difficult to even find any articles online. I got a hold of the Athens News while on the ferry and found a number of articles covering the protests rejecting creditors' demands to sell off state assets.
One article explained why there was little media coverage of what was going on.
According to the article, there are no spokespeople for the protestors. Many refuse to talk to the media, particularly Grecian media, because they consider it to be part of the problem with what is going on in the country, and that it is spreading the government's propaganda. They consider the coverage to be biased because their quotes are often used out of context and that facts are twisted.
Unfortunately, the article also stated that the lack of media attention really had little effect due to the fact that Greece has one of the lowest rates of newspaper readership in Europe.
I had to agree with what I read. One article I had managed to find online said that a protest had swelled to around 80,000 people when in actuality there had been hundreds of thousands of people at the demonstration. Needless to say, it's hard to get a real grip as to what is fully going on as much as I'd like to.
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