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I think there's a lot of misinformation around the Greek crisis. Whenever any of the actors involved speak to the press, you can be sure they have an agenda: t
by Luc 12y ago
I think there's a lot of misinformation around the Greek crisis.
Whenever any of the actors involved speak to the press, you can be sure they have an agenda: to influence public opinion (their own or of other parties), or to seem more extreme than they actually are at the negotiating table so as to make a solution politically possible, etc.
When reporting on this the press then layers on a nice thick coating of opinion, often basing themselves on other press articles which suffer from the same problem.
No wonder comments on the internet are often of the 'You're an idiot! No you are!' variety. People are trying to reason based on second degree derivatives of the actual situation.
- euccastro 12y agoI don't suppose you mean that discussion is futile because our sources are tainted? In this case Varoufakis is saying pretty much the same he used to years before he had any political responsibility.
- Luc 12y agoI think it's better to hear it straight from Varoufakis than to read the newspapers, and what he says seems less 'political' than from the usual career politicians.