Supervisors info:
Βαγγέλης Καραμανωλάκης, καθηγητής, ΕΚΠΑ
Δήμητρα Λαμπροπούλου, επίκουρη καθηγήτρια ΕΚΠΑ
Ευάνθης Χατζηβασιλείου, καθηγητής ΕΚΠΑ.
Summary:
My thesis attempts to grasp aspects of the public debate, as they appeared in the press in the period leading up to and during the trial of the first perpetrators of the coup of 21 April 1967. The research is carried out with the term and context of the public sphere and the way a public debate on a judicial-political event is constituted as its axes. Also, tools from the theoretical - methodological arsenal of transitional justice studies were used. The study is based on the examination of three newspapers ( Avgi, Kathimerini, Nea) . The publications share the anxiety and the desire to conduct the trial as directly as possible , each starting from different points and focusing elsewhere. A different level of demands, criticism, interpretation and analysis of developments is thus evident. Questions, which permeate the research paper, concern the role of the journalist and the media in shaping the public debate in relation to and on issues of justice, but also the way and the points in which reactions, expressions, opinions of different segments of the population and social and political categories are reflected or mirrored. In a period of time particularly dense with processes and developments, which are outlined in the broader field of the political, the paper studies the echo and the part of the public debate that is found in the newspapers' pages, as well as the role that the press aspires to play at the level of the public sphere. The three newspapers are studied for the period from April 1975 to September of the same year. In the course of these months there are continuities in the press coverage of the case, but also several intersections and climaxes, the character and role of which an attempt is made to evaluate and interpret. Part of the hypothesis of the thesis is therefore, through a regular and analytical study of the press of the period and with an overall perspective of reading and understanding, to be able to draw some conclusions about the constitution and substantiation of a public debate that starts from an important judicial event, concerns political and social events as part of it and as a part of the case of the political and political transition in the Greek case.
Keywords:
Public Sphere, Transitional Justice, Justice, Press, Junta's Trials, Metapolitefsi, Democracy, coup of 21 April 1967.
