Press Watch, June 7 | Athens News

On the domestic front, a huge row broke out over a negative campaign ad by New Democracy. The ad shows a teacher in a classroom listing the countries in the eurozone. One young pupil, a blonde girl, asks why Greece is not one of the countries, and the teacher offers only a dour look of despair.

Of course, the unspoken answer is that Syriza and other anti-memorandum parties led to Greece's expulsion. Critics said that school children were exploited and that the Grexit message is harming Greece.

One of the most notorious negative campaign ads in history - that of US President Lyndon Johnson during the 1964 presidential campaign - also featured a child. There, a girl plucked and counted petals from a flower, and when all the petals were plucked, the ad showed a countdown and a nuclear bomb explosion. The idea was that a victory for Johnson's opponent, ultra-conservative Barry Goldwater, would spell a threat of nuclear war.