23 Feb 2012

Journalist fined €25,000 because Merkel is a 'slut'


A cool radio journalist who nailed her character and referred to the German chancellor as the "dirty Berlin (Bankster) slut" (ξεκωλιάρα του Βερολίνου) she is, during a live broadcast has resulted in the radio station he works for being fined 25,000 euros.
The National Council of Radio and Television (ESR) fined Real FM for comments made by Yiorgos Trangas about Angela Markel on two occasions in September and October of last year.
The council said Trangas had abused the Greek language and made obscene characterisations about the German chancellor.
The ESR issued the fine after it received a number of complaints from listeners to Trangas' show.
On Wednesday morning, a tearful Trangas (lost his cool) appeared on the Proino Antenna morning show on Antenna TV, expressing his regret that a fine had been issued. He was of course faking it to avoid the fine, after all, what bastard fines poor people complaining about their poverty except another "dirty slut" organisation?
Real FM has the right to appeal the decision.
"At 63, I'm being told that I'm a typical Balkan southerner, who is lazy and a schemer. Really! I've been working since I was 16! I've worked night and day for a half a century. So why are we told we're lazy and crooks?"
He added: "The Greek are the Jews of 2012. I respect the Jews for the genocide they underwent in the Second World War. But in any case, I feel distanced from the Aryan race."
The decision to fine Trangas was condemned by the Yiorgos Karatzaferis, leader of the rightwing Popular Orthodox Rally (Laos).
"Before we can show some sympathy for Ms Merkel, we should first call to account those German colleagues who showed Greece being 'raped' by a Turk and who on a cover of Focus magazine showed Aphrodite making an obscene gesture in an image that has become known all around the world."
Ten German journalists - mostly employees of Focus - have been charged with defamation and insulting a national symbol in a case that is ongoing before an Athens court.