MINA “NEWS” AGENCY MISINFORMS AGAIN…
It has recently come to our attention that MINA (the “news” agency serving Skopje’s VMRO government line and based in the United Kingdom) yet again published false information about Greece on its website on March 25, 2010; the day of Greek Independence. Taking advantage of the recent anti-Hellenic propaganda published in the German magazines Focus and Bildt, which resurrected the inherently racist views of the 19th Century German traveller and historian Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer, MINA reported this piece of “news”:
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/13318/46/
Reflecting Fallmerayer’s views, MINA titled its report, “Greek Tourist Guide on Travel Channel: There is no Greek Ethnicity”. MINA reports that the Canadian television channel “The Travel Channel” aired an episode of the cooking program “No Reservations” hosted by Anthony Bourdain about Greece on March 24, 2010. MINA claims that Mr. Bourdain allegedly asks his tourist guide Byron Ayanoglou (a Greek and Montreal-based restaurant critic) the following questions: “What is really a Greek? Is it an ethnicity? Who are the Greeks?” MINA then further mocks Hellenism and Greeks by stating how yet another mass media channel questions Greeks just like the Germans do.
The rest of the article can be found on History-Of-Macedonia.com