The Adventures of an Oral History Archive in the Greek Public Domain
Contemporary European History
; 32(1):52-56, 2023.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-2211859
ABSTRACT
In December 2021 a famous Greek TV and radio journalist and well-known anti-vaxxer, Yiorgos Tragkas, passed away due to Covid-19 complications. In the previous two decades, Tragkas had become a controversial figure, employing an anti-elite, pro-Russian and anti-Western narrative that fed into the country's underdog culture. His ethnocentric, populist, toxic tabloid journalism had been a popular genre in Greek political culture since the early 1980s. However, the debt and migration crises that shook Greece fuelled populist politics and a wave of misinformation.1 Tragkas jumped on the bandwagon of this new era by whitewashing the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party on national TV and by live appearances dressed up as a Second World War Nazi officer, with photos of Adolf Hitler and Angela Merkel on his desk.
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ProQuest Central
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Contemporary European History
Year:
2023
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Article
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