{"id":1292,"date":"2026-04-18T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:04:00","slug":"hypocrites-demetriades-exonerations-are-slapp-and-dudonis-are-just-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Hypocrites: Demetriades&#8217; exonerations are &#8220;SLAPP&#8221; and Dudonis&#8217; are&#8230; just Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The issue of boundaries between criticism, journalism, slander,<\/b> legal action and <b>due SLAPP lawsuits is at the forefront.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Hypocrisy in the land of the gray orange, well and truly on!<\/b> On the occasion of the &#8220;angry&#8221; reaction <b>Dudonis<\/b> to some journalistic questions posed to him by the journalist<b> <\/b><b>Vassilis Chiotis<\/b>, let us also pose a (rhetorical) question: <b>When Gregoris Dimitriadis sends out-of-court letters and sues journalists because he believes he is being slandered then it is SLAPP and when PASOK Panagiotis Doudonis<\/a> sends letters of apology to journalists then it&#8217;s just Saturday;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Chiotis-Doudonis dispute<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The sending of a letter of apology by MP Panagiotis Doudonis to SKAI journalist Vasilis Chiotis, <b>on the occasion of public reports and commentary on OPEKEPE,<\/b> triggered a new cycle of reactions in the media and social media, opening a wider <b>discussion on whether political reactions to journalistic speech can be considered a legitimate institutional reaction or a form of pressure.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit and lawsuit sent to him by PASOK MP Panagiotis Doudonis was made public by journalist and director of the SKAI radio station Vassilis Chiotis. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, in his social media comment, Chiotis, who is from Lesvos like Pan. Dudonis, wrote mockingly: &#8220;As we say on our island, <b>&#8220;there goes he, he burned his little field&#8230;&#8221;<\/b><br \/>Specifically, Vassilis Chiotis posted the out-of-court letter sent to him by Panagiotis Doudonis &#8211; &#8220;there goes he, he burned his little field&#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He even commented ironically by showing the excerpt of the out-of-court letter: <b>&#8220;A calm voice in the new generation of politicians. No persecution complexes.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question of the boundaries between criticism, journalism, slander, legal actions and so-called SLAPP lawsuits is at the forefront.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}