It took an appeal from government spokesman Giannis Oikonmou and the general secretary of social solidarity, Giorgos Stamatis, to the National Broadcasting Council (ESR) over the way the media was covering the case of the 12-year-old girl in the Athens district of Kolonos who was raped and pimped by her mother’s employer.
They needed to stress that there were serious ethical issues involved, but also the violation of the regulatory framework for protecting minors in the constitution and in Greek and European legislation. They needed to condemn the dissemination of explicit, private footage and details by television and radio stations and websites.
It took two government officials to address an independent authority on an issue in the public domain, on one that has caused widespread condemnation. There is so much condemnation of the coverage of the story, meanwhile, that we…
