The video posted by Ioanna Touni regarding the adjournment of the revenge porn video trial was the reason for the tensions to rise during the Morning News discussion. Giorgos Liagas and Fotini Petrogianni had a very heated rant, with an unexpected turn of events…
Jiorgos Liagas first mentioned the following: “Ms Touni, the problem is part of the work you do. It is not the television. No one on television would dare to think, or even if they did think, to whisper or say that it makes you a ‘whore’ – as you said – to participate in such an unintentional video.
The problem is that this is the work of your job.
And how much more so, even if someone thought about it because they would have the worst opinion of you. He wouldn’t dare to whisper it, because it’s forbidden for one thing, and it would be suicidal to say it for another. See who says it: The people that all influencers turn to to make money. I’m not blaming you now, for God’s sake.
The people who are all the people people who get the most attention.
But it’s this new gizmo that’s come into our lives, which is supposed to be democracy that came to give anyone anonymous etc. a say to speak their mind, so they call you a “whore”. Part of them, I like to think, not all of them. So you see then, and you and all influencers, the power that you get from social, that makes you successful, that makes you who you are… but ultimately it’s those same people who, in the heat of the moment, will come out and say…. and wag their finger.”
Fotini Petrogianni interrupted at this point and said: “I don’t understand what you’re saying at all. Singers are addressing their audience. So the audience goes downstairs to the dance floor and watches the singers. They can get up and boo the singer.”
“Bright, did you understand what I said or are you once again not getting it and telling me off? I think you haven’t understood what I’m saying,” Giorgos Liagas replied in annoyance. “I understand what you’re saying,” Fotini Petrogianni retorted, and the following dialogue ensued:
G.L. “No, you don’t understand what I’m saying.”
F.P. “Tell me what you said, because I guess I’m stupid… I didn’t understand.”
F.L. “Let me tell you something now. If you’re creating a story to play a headline on the channels that Liagas called Fotini stupid, I didn’t call you stupid. You called her stupid yourself. I haven’t called anyone stupid, let alone you. Please very much, once again, do not create impressions on my back, firstly. Secondly, I speak very good Greek and I know very well what I am saying. I said something else. I said that no one in organised television society would dare to call Mrs Touni a prostitute. Who says it? Social media libertarianism.”
It’s the freedom of social media.
