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On 15 September 2009, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) made public its latest reports on the Czech Republic, Greece and Switzerland, adopted in the fourth round of its monitoring of the laws, policies and practices to combat racism in the Member States of the Council of Europe (for commentary on earlier reports, see IRIS 2009-8: 5, IRIS 2009-5: 4, IRIS 2008-4: 6, IRIS 2006-6: 4 and IRIS 2005-7: 3). Three main recommendations dealing with the (audiovisual) media and/or the Internet can be distilled from relevant sections of these reports. First, in each of the reports,...

In September 2009, the Ethniko Symvoulio Radiotileorasis (National Council for Radio and Television - ESR) issued a Directive that provides guidelines concerning the coverage by radio and television of the period prior to the Greek national parliamentary elections of 4 October 2009. The Directive was published several months after the publication of another Directive by the Council that dealt with the coverage of the period prior to the elections for the Greek members for the European Parliament. The two Directives contain many comparable provisions, however September’s Directive is more detailed...

The Εθνικό Συμβούλιο Ραδιοτηλεόρασης (National Council for Radio and Television - ESR) imposed the strictest sanction at its disposal in relation to television programmes on the television channel ANT1 in a decision issued on 2 June 2009, by ordering the termination of transmission of the reality show “The Moment of Truth”. The show involved players answering questions relating to their personal life in the presence of members of their immediate family. The show was divided into three different rounds; The questions during the first round were generally harmless, while those of the second and third...

The 4th Chamber of Συμβουλίο της Επικρατείας (the Administrative Court of Justice - StE) found the ministerial decision by which only a five-minute period is granted for the presentation of their views by means of a television or radio programme of their own production to political parties participating for the first time in the European elections to be legal. The Court decided that these parties operate in different circumstances than their more well-established counterparts and, therefore, the dedication of additional time to the latter, through the free transmission of advertisements (on television...

In December 2008, the manner in which demonstrations and accompanying disorder are broadcast by the media came under scrutiny in Greece. In particular, the Ethniko Symvoulio Radiotileorasis (National Council for Radio and Television - ESR) issued two recommendations concerning the appropriate manner of reporting on disorder during demonstrations, while the Symvoulio tis Epikratias (Administrative Court of Justice) issued two decisions on the right of a journalist to decide as to the suitable amount of time that should be dedicated to the broadcast of demonstrations as such and the amount of time...