MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Journalists in Greece Are Becoming Targets
By artappraiser on Sat, 01/12/2013 - 6:49pm |By Liz Alderman, New York Times, Jan. 12/13, 2013
The Greek police on Saturday were looking for the people responsible for detonating makeshift bombs at the homes of five journalists in Athens, the latest in a series of actions taken against reporters in Greece that have raised questions about a deteriorating climate for media freedom.
An anarchist group calling itself “Lovers of Lawlessness” claimed responsibility for Friday’s attacks, citing coverage of the financial crisis that the group denounced as sympathetic to the austerity programs being imposed by the Greek government and its foreign lenders. [....]
“Yesterday they raided radio stations; today we have explosions at journalists’ homes,” said Simos Kedikoglou, the coalition government’s spokesman. “There is an open effort to terrorize the media, a vital part of our democracy." [....]
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/world/europe/greek-police-search-for-culprits-in-bombings-at-journalists-homes.html
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