Abstract
The sun sets on Golden Dawn: Media representations of the biggest trial of Nazi criminality of our times
Highlights
On October 7 2020, a Greek appeals court declared Golden Dawn2 a criminal organisation, marking the culmination of one of the most prominent trials in the country’s post-dictatorship period
This allowed the party to simultaneously reach out to lower classes that were disproportionately affected by the austerity measures, as well as the middle classes who had lost their confidence in the established political parties (Verousi and Allen, 2021; Tipaldou and Uban, 2018; Koronaiou and Sakellariou, 2013)
Unprecedented as it might have been for a country that was under Nazi occupation less than a century beforehand, neo-Nazi GD had succeeded in becoming Greece’s third most popular political party by 2015
Summary
On October 7 2020, a Greek appeals court declared Golden Dawn a criminal organisation, marking the culmination of one of the most prominent trials in the country’s post-dictatorship period. The exact nature of the relationship between media outlets and the far-right political parties is not proved empirically to a satisfactory extent, research worldwide suggests that especially when far-right political parties are still at an infant stage of development, media exposure can directly impact on their subsequent electoral performance by offering them visibility, increasing their outreach, granting them political momentum, as well as playing a vital role in mainstreaming far-right actors and their belief system. Such was true in the case of Greece’s GD. There is a necessity for research that investigates the framing of GD and its trial in the mainstream Greek media, in order to evaluate the contribution of these frames in democratic debate
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