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Athens News Agency: News in English, 05-10-30
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[01] Greeks disapprove of sensationalist reporting, polls show
[01] Greeks disapprove of sensationalist reporting, polls show
Greeks disapprove of the 'TV-trial' phenomenon and have a poor opinion
of sensationalist TV journalism but the vast majority wants scandals to
be revealed, even if this might lead to some degree of excess,
according to the findings of two polls published on Sunday by V-PRC and
ALCO, respectively.
According to the V-PRC poll appeared in the "Sunday Eleftherotypia", 71
per cent of Greeks consider that many 'current affairs' programmes and
certain TV news programmes run to sensationalism in order to boost
ratings, as opposed to 13 per cent who believe that reporting is
objective.
Nearly half (44 per cent) of Greeks believe that the methods used by
journalists violate constitutional and human rights, while the
overwhelming majority (74 per cent) believe that private television
serves chiefly "the business interests of channel owners".
The Alco poll published in the newspaper "Proto Thema on Sunday" found
that 80 per cent of public opinion believed that scandals should be
revealed in full, even if this might lead to excess in some cases.
In favour of the full revelation of scandals were 80.3 percent of
ruling New Democracy (ND) supporters and 79.3 percent of main
opposition PASOK supporters.
Finally, 62.7 percent consider that the government and the prime
minister are not taking action against corruption, while 52.9 percent
consider the government's handling to be wrong.
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