description: The experience of the Greek Press under the Dictatorship of the Colonels offers many important warnings and examples to other countries who like to think of themselves as democratic and liberal. The Greek Press was circumscribed and hounded by State censorship, accompanied by swingeing economic sanctions, the threat of prison, coercion and much worse. “Pillar and Tinderbox” not only gives a full background to the economic and political problems facing the press at the beginning of the coup, it also gives a blow-by-blow account of the heroism and cunning of the writers and editors, and of how many of them survived, and some succumbed, under impossible working conditions. Backed up with facts, figures and eye-witness reports, Robert McDonald’s study presents a fascinating and readable account of life under a totalitarian regime imposed by force. It charts pre-Colonel conditions of the Greek press, deals with relentless press regulations and their enforcement under the Junta’s repressive regime, and describes the collapse of the dictatorship with the subsequent restitution of editorial freedom right up to the beginning of Papandreou’s government.
language: English
title: Pillar and Tinderbox: The Greek Press and the Dictatorship
titlecomplete: Pillar and Tinderbox: The Greek Press and the Dictatorship
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Scribner