Greece is trying to show the EU it is sincere about cutting public sector jobs. In a show of austerity they shut down their public television service (ERT). Greek officials called the 300 million Euros spent on their public broadcasting service incredibly wasteful. An article published by euactive.com says the service will come back as a slimmed down version.
There was an immediate storm of protests from labor leaders, journalists and, junior partners in the ruling coalition. In a show of solidarity, commercial broadcasters protested by taking their live programming off the air for six hours.
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