They are industrialists, shipping line owners, landowners and bankers. In Greece, a handful of leading families have ruled over Greece’s economy and politics for decades. And their offspring are only too often the leading shareholders in the privately-owned media. Taken from the Media oligarchs go shopping report by Reporters Without Borders Key points: Greece has been controlled for the past five decades by a handful of families – from five to 20 families, depending on your source. They are industrialists (petroleum and construction), shipping line owners, landowners and bankers. And only too often they are also the main shareholders of the country’s media. In an interview for Jean Quatremer’s documentary “Greece, the day after,” Greek investigative journalist Nikolas Leontopoulos explained the workings of this incestuous system [...] “ We talk of the triangle of sin (...) but it is more of a square, ” he said. “ The first side is the entrepreneuria