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Journalists are often not free to work even from a physical point of view. It has happened to me not to be able to work freely in countries such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Libya and Egypt. There is a guide standing around you and telling you what to shoot and what not to shoot. In Iraq, this guy had even ordered me: "Shoot! Stop! Shoot! Stop!" You just try to do your work in the best possible way under such circumstances.

I think there are two kinds of freedom generally. There is the lack of direct freedom in countries ruled by regimes that prevent the freedom of speech. But press freedom is a topic of much discussion in developed countries too. I do not know how free the journalist "X" is in his work, when finding something that affects the interests of his employer. I do not know whether the employer would allow the journalists to publish his findings.

I think this is something we see in Greece. Not that there is no press freedom. But what I see mostly on private television channels is that the "uncomfortable" topics such as the situation in Keratea are not shown or are presented completely partially. From this point of view, I believe that press freedom is a controversial issue in developed societies, and here I do not mean only Greece, but many other societies around the world. And I think that every journalist decides for him/herself how to respond and to oppose the restrictions on his or her freedom of expression.