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SAVING FACE IN TOKYO

Since the covid-19 pandemic became humanity’s primary concern, the question was no longer if the 2020 Summer Olympic Games would be rescheduled, but when the decision would be taken. This global scare could not be treated as lightly as the mosquito-carried Zika infection that compromised the 2016 Rio Games.

Forget the German elections, new-boy President Macron or Trump's Tower of Tweet. The big political contest of the summer is who follows Tokyo to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, a contest which will be decided in Peru on September 13.

Some applauded the initiative, many questioned the intent and most doubted the outcome of SYRIZA's effort to put order in the Greek TV environment. The so-called "4th power", that of the mass media, is considered the backbone of "diaploki", in other words, the web of intertwined special interests which form the root of clientelism and the medium of broadcast populism.