For anyone interested, a balanced view by a journalist working at ERT who'll likely be losing his job now: http://www.eyedoll.gr/ngine/article/1779/%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%BD-%CF%80%CE%AC%CE%B5%CE%B9-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF-%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%BF-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9-%CE%B7-%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%84 I'm sure the non-Greek speakers among you can google translate or babelfish it. the tl;dr is he realizes that the broadcaster is a morass of mediocrity and corruption (dozes of "special advisors to the CEO" being paid extravagant salaries for doing nothing), he says that much simpler solutions to the broadcaster's problems that did not involve shuttering it had been proposed and ignored, and that therefore its closing must be motivated by the government's cosiness with private broadcasting interests.