There has been chaos in the last two 24 hours with the show “You still haven’t seen anything” (MEGA), after it “hosted” after many years of silence the singer and performer Giorgos Marinos. It’s a way of saying he “hosted” him, since the station’s much-hyped “journalistic success” was that it simply broadcast a few still photos of him together with Panos Katsaridis, the well-known theater producer who, in the role of reporter, managed to break the veil of privacy this time of the favorite artist. We also saw clips of an amateur video from the celebration of Chiknopempti at the nursing home where Marinos lives, with a woman holding his hands and “dancing” with him, while he moved his lips to the rhythm of the song “Let’s come for a while”. The television audience was divided and, I won’t hide it, I was also one of those who were waiting to see a statement at least from the lips of Marinos, an artist I had been looking for since 2015 for an interview. The other half of the television audience expressed – quite rightly in my opinion – their objections and objections to the “dragging” on television of a man who clearly did not have the brakes to prevent his exposure to the media.
My opinion is that the responsibility does not lie with Katsaridis, to whom we could say that the “journalistic success” belongs, nor even with the television station that agreed to broadcast it.
The responsibility rests solely with the person or people who have taken over the “guardianship” of Marino and decided to expose him for their own understandable reasons that we do not know who they are.
And here again comes the next question which is fundamental especially when we are dealing with people unable to defend themselves. What disrespect is this towards an 84-year-old insane patient who has been living in a nursing home for the last few years? Why should we literally endure the deplorable image of an artist who was once the “joy of life” and today may not even be able to articulate a few rudimentary words?
It is almost certain that if Marinos, “the most discreet and private person I have met”, as the director Christos Dimas wrote, managed to see the report on a glimpse of his shaken mental health, he would be unimaginably distressed. As, therefore, the people who love him and have been worried about his condition for years were upset. Personally, if I were the host of this particular show, I’d at most – very much thank everyone involved for supplying the subject, but I wouldn’t broadcast it out of respect for its condition alone. That Tsouros chose to broadcast it, making crazy numbers of course, is something that highlights once again the cannibalistic nature of television and shows of this kind.
Conclusion: That George Marinos has dementia in an advanced stage was something I was aware of, as were many other colleagues. That she happily lives with all the care in a nursing home also justifiably gave us all some joy. But was it necessary to see him as a shadow of himself? Why; A “why” that, always on the occasion of gossip shows, will never cease to concern us.
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