Greek audiovisual tragedy 

In 2013, crisis-stricken Greece abruptly shut down its public broadcasting system. Nicolas Brodard recounts the battle over ERT: social struggles, control of the narrative and the illusions of a public service reinvented under Greek austerity, in the heart of chaos. 

The disastrous consequences of the Greek debt crisis had already been raging for several months. In the central districts of the capital, violent clashes were taking place almost daily between protest movements and the forces of law and order. Hundreds of thousands of Greeks were unemployed without hope, while many of their elders were forced to provide room and board for their offspring, returning to their parental responsibilities despite severely reduced pensions. At nightfall, it was not uncommon to see the silhouette of a mother disinterested in her children.