What's the state of press freedom in your country?

[Zeno]

In Greece, two situations exist in parallel: while the media landscape is entirely fragmented, with probably hundreds of media outlets, mainstream media are owned by shipping tycoons (who probably have dozens of billions of euros in wealth, but officially declare a fraction of it), contrary to most of Europe, where the mainstream media are, despite being owned by moguls, owned by moguls that are strictly related to the media busineess.

Then, it's the issue of funds allocation, which has been the subject of debate whether there's self-imposed censorship: in 2020, there was this list issued by the then-minister of the Interior, Petsas, according to which funds from the government were distributed among all the most major media outlets, in which it was noticed that a bigger portion was allocated to pro-government media. We don't know how much that is due today, but that's said to cause "self-censorship" amongst journalists in anti-government media.

The issue here is... Anti-government media are provedly getting a lot of donations from subscriptions and donations from business interests as well. And they have certainly not toned down their speak against the government, especially the last 2 years, specifically for the Tempi rail disaster and the Thessaly floods.

Despite the above describing a not so bad situation overall, Greece was ranked 107th. Below places with literal military dictatorships (Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea, Gabon, Central African Republic, Mozambique, Senegal), worse entaglement of politics into media (South Africa, Bulgaria, Moldova, North Macedonia [FYROM]), or places in war or perpetual conflict (Ukraine, Armenia) or pseudo-states unilaterally recognised by only one country (Northern Cyprus).

What's the state of press freedom in your country, and what you think about rankings like the one issued by RSF?

[Tooting Carmen]

It certainly could be better for the UK. There is too much concentrated media ownership, and our libel laws are an utter disgrace. Another growing problem in recent years has been the rise of court-ordered super injunctions, where we are not allowed to learn about a case or even than an injunction exists to prevent said knowledge.

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

According to the the lasted study in Reporters sans frontières, we are well placed (9th place) but it should be noted that our freedom or press has been getting worse, since the previous year we were in 7th place. Generally speaking, I would argue that Portugal is a fairly free country in this regard and anyone can express their opinion freely, however controversial it may be.

[Blondie]

what you think about rankings like the one issued by RSF?

Propaganda, made by leftist elite. It just means your media is woke or not.

I created a thread about the hungarian media, you can see it in numbers:

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...ony-in-Hungary

There is complete media equality in Hungary.

[Zeno]

It certainly could be better for the UK. There is too much concentrated media ownership, and our libel laws are an utter disgrace. Another growing problem in recent years has been the rise of court-ordered super injunctions, where we are not allowed to learn about a case or even than an injunction exists to prevent said knowledge.

That sounds similar for Greece, but for some reason we're ranked far, far below than the UK, despite the situation being mostly similar.

[Zeno]

Propaganda, made by leftist elite. It just means your media is woke or not.

I created a thread about the hungarian media, you can see it in numbers:

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...ony-in-Hungary

There is complete media equality in Hungary.

Funny thing is: the RSF was originally made by Robert Menard, a far-right politician who, although independent, has been pretty much aligned with the National Front of France for decades now and is the mayor of Beziers.

[Blondie]

Funny thing is: the RSF was originally made by Robert Menard, a far-right politician who, although independent, has been pretty much aligned with the National Front of France for decades now and is the mayor of Beziers.

Sure and according to the RSF list the top countries are the nordic countries where you can find the most fanatic woke cenzorship Do you really think this list has any to do with the reality? It just show the woke level of your media.

[thatoneton]

In Poland main media tends to be left-leaning.

Main television news outlets are TVP, Polsat and TVN.
TVP is state-owned so whoever is in power gets to decide what it says. Which can clearly be seen recently as after 8 years of PiS government when it was known for its blatant -pro-gov propaganda the new PO-led government even broke a law to get control of it so that it can now spread its own propaganda.
Polsat is privately owned by a Polish businessman and generally has been more left-leaning, although it has varied.
TVN is widely known for being your typical woke station, and has been popularly called a German TV station because of how it has been spreading whatever German pro-EU propaganda possible. Ironically, it's American (HBO) owned.
Other TV channels matters much less when it comes to politics (their news programmes, if they have them, are much less watched).

When it comes to Radio stations by far the most popular is RMF, and the less popular is Radio Zet. They are somewhat leftist, but RMF is probably less so of the two. There are many radio stations outside of that, but they mostly specialize in certain type of music.

Main news internet outlets are leftist leaning - onet (very leftist), wp.pl (likewise), Interia (much less so), TVN24 (go figure), gazeta.pl and wyborcza.pl (very leftist and basically the same). Interia is Polsat-owned and TVN24 TVN-owned.

Generally speaking it's mostly the smaller radio stations, tv or internet sites, or Youtube channels that have a more moderate or right-wing content. Several of the before-mentioned media are also present on Youtube where their popularity varies.