September 16, 2015

Varoufakis to Corbyn: ‘Don’t Fear the Media’

Yanis Varoufakis

Asked by Paul Mason of Britain’s Channel 4 News (9/14/15), “What can Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell learn from what you did in office?” former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis had some ready advice for the incoming British Labour Party leaders:

The one important lesson is that the people out there – if the message is right, if you are sincere, if you forget about spinning and speak to their heart and address them directly as adults – are not going to be terrorized by the media. Don’t fear the media. The media can be bypassed if the message is right and its sincerity defeats hypocrisy.

See more of the interview with Varoufakis on Channel Four‘s YouTube channel.

Jim Naureckas is the editor of FAIR.org.

Jim Naureckas

Jim Naureckas is the editor of FAIR.org, and has edited FAIR's print publication Extra! since 1990. He is the co-author of The Way Things Aren’t: Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error, and co-editor of The FAIR Reader. He was an investigative reporter for In These Times and managing editor of the Washington Report on the Hemisphere. Born in Libertyville, Illinois, he has a poli sci degree from Stanford. Since 1997 he has been married to Janine Jackson, FAIR’s program director.

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