Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) denounces a new example of directed journalism in the service of “national interests” by the Greek state Athens News Agency (ANA) that was willingly disseminated by several Greek media without checking the story despite its obviously irrational content. A State Department spokesperson answer to a Greek journalist, on 19 October, stating that the USA recognize states (including Macedonia with its constitutional name) and not languages or sub-national groups within states was distorted by ANA so as to present is as “U.S. State Department says it does not recognise ‘a Macedonian language’ or ethnicity.” Such a position would obviously be irrational a few days after the US State Department-headed delegation to the OSCE referred to a Macedonian minority in Greece : statement at the website.