Το γραμμα που έστειλε η Παμμακεδονικη ένωση Ελλήνων της Αυστραλίας στο κανάλι 7
Σ.ΧΑΤΖΗΣΑΒΒΑΣ: NBC, Matt Lauer & Meredith Vieira βάλτε τη μούρη κάτω και ζητήστε συγγνώμη…
PANMACEDONIAN ASSOCIATION OF MELB. & VIC.
STATEMENT OF CONDEMNATION – BRUCE McACEVANEY
6th August, 2016
To: Kerry Stokes AC, Chairman – Non-Executive Director
Mr John Alexander, Non-Executive Director
Michelle Deaker, Non-Executive Director
David Evans, Non-Executive Director
Peter Gammell, Non-Executive Director
The Hon Jeffrey Kennett AC, Non-Executive Director
Michael Malone, Non-Executive Director
Sheila McGregor, Non-Executive Director
Ryan Stokes, Non-Executive Director
Tim Worner, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Bridget Fair, Group Chief – Corporate and Regulatory Affairs
STATEMENT OF CONDEMNATION
Once again, and with no surprise, Australians and viewers all around the world have witnessed the ineptness, ignorance and uneducated positions adopted and propagated by Australia media commentators. This statement is not one for education by condemnation!
The national (and international) broadcasting of Channel 7’s Olympic ceremony saw Australians and Hellenes witness moronic comments made by Bruce McAvaney when the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’s (FYROM) Olympic team stepped out into the arena. Not only does the United Nations, European Union and NATO refer to their region as the FYROM but so does the International Olympic Committee.
Yet, we have “journalists” such as Mr McAvaney, who prides himself as researching extensively prior to any sports broadcast, being caught out here, exposed, parroting off a propaganda memo (masking as a script), re-interpreting history through national broadcasting. His reference to the country as “Macedonia” and more concerning statements that this is “the birthplace of Alexander the Great, so there’s a bit of history for you” constitutes a violation of the human rights of Hellenes who are the descendants of the city state of Macedonia – and not that of our neighbours, north of Greece.
It is extraordinary that the exact wording was verbalised by USA presenters at the same time, which means they too followed a “script”. Who wrote this “script”? Was the reading of it imposed on the presenters? Was it part of the successful winning of the television broadcasting rights? Who checked the accuracy of the “script”?
The continued ignorance in the Australian media is validating a «seamless fraud». However, only two possible reasons could exist for Channel 7, Mr McAvaney and any other commentator making such claims. Firstly, an obvious notion of “payment’ may have occurred between the network and the FYROM community contributing towards their irredentist movement, or secondly, their complete ineptness of any historically accurate fact.
Statements made during the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony by your commentators affirming that Alexander the Great and his father Philip II were «two of their greatest Olympians» are also completely out of order and are a pure insult on history and Greeks around the world. Greeks could only participate in the Ancient Olympics and Alexander and Philip were Greeks!
Given that this is a statement of condemnation, we request Channel 7 to formally retract these false statements and provide a formal apology to historians as well as the Greek community.
Yours in Hellenism,
Peter Jasonides
President, PanMacedonian Association of Melbourne & Victoria
Η απολογία του εκφωνητή μέσω twitter σχετικα με τα όσα είπε για τον Μεγα Αλεξανδρο και τα Σκοπια στην εκφώνηση.
Greeks in Australia were shocked to hear Andrew Gaze, the host of the opening ceremony coverage on Australia’s Seven Network, refer to the Slavic nation officially referred by the International Olympic Committee as the “Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,” as being connected to Alexander the Great and King Phillip.
Greek Australians mobilized— formally through The Pan-Macedonian Association of Melbourne and Victoria, as well as informally via Twitter, where dozens of users Tweeted Gaze directly.
Gaze is a retired basketball player who actually played professionally in Greece for a time.
He responded on Twitter, insinuating that us was reading from the prepared script and that “If it is incorrect or wasn’t communicated correctly, I sincerely apologise.”
