Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-06-12
JOURNALISM IN GREECE.


Homer.
The newspapers CT Greece, the
kingdom Of GColgc |, do not take
very high rank i'll EUIClc, either i'll
RESI- ect to their Progressive features
or their extensive circulation. Tho
standard size of Greek newspaper
is II l-2 by 8 inches, and there are
usually four pages devoted to the
discussion of political and theologi-
cal matters. with an occasional ref
erenco to local occurrences, when
adequate confederation has been OBJ
tanned.
Athens, the capital of Greece, has
about the same population us Grand
Rapids. The ancient Greek city
maintains, however, nine daily
newspapers, not one of which has
more than 5000 circulation. The
names of these papers are them
selves fair Indication of the So
lemnity which covers the periodical
publication business in Greece.
These are The Ora (The Hour),
The Plinghhenesia (Regeneration),
Neail Ideal (New Ideas), Aion (The
People,, Toia (Morning) and Tele-
graftus (The Telegram. There are,
moreover, i'll Athens two weekly pa
pers published in tho French Ian
guage, LIE Journal d'Athenes and
lie Messenger Il 'Athenes. These two
newspapers arc designed especially
for the enlightenment, instruction
and rerusal of tourists and resident
diplomatists.
The partiality of such diplomat
lists fora we, ky newspaper publish.
ed in language other than Greek
may lie understood whCn the fact
is known that the title of tho
chief Athenian weekly newspaper is
as follows: Epitlolisis Pilologika
Kai Politiki. The circulation of
this Journal is not so extensive as it's
name would indicate. In Corfu Il
city larger than Athens, and which
does an extensive commerce with
foreign countries, there is publish
ed the Amcrsliptos (The Voice., and
i'll the town of Thirolis is published
q journal with the odd title Of tho
Provisional Voice.
The town of Zante is chiefly
known in the United States on ac-
count of it's currants, and it would
be notul easonable inference that
at least one of the two papers pub
lished in Xnntc had commercial or
at least conventional title. But the
Greeks in journalism, as in other
literature, are nothing if not seri-
Gus, and 50 the publishers of these
two papers call them respectively
The Agon and Elpis. The English
equivalent of the former is Tho
Struggle, Of the latter the English
equivalent is Hope. There is q
marked lack of originality in news
paper nomenclature in the Greek
town of Piraeus 1t has three news
papers-one daily, one weekly and
one biweekly. They are published
separately, and, in fact, in opposi-
tion to each other, and their titles
are The Globe, The Hemisphere and
The World.
In the town of Patras, which has
about the same population as New
Bedford, there is orc newspaper,
with the extensive title of Empori-
kos ParatiritiS, and in the ancient,
illustrious and historic town of Spar
tn there are The Peloponisiakos AS
tir and Tho Loponnisiakos Eos.
journalism i'll modern Sparta is
somewhat astronomical, the signifi-
canoe OF one of the Sparta papers
being Tho Peloponnesian Star and
of The Pclonnesian Aurora. The
Greek newspapers deal sparingly
with tho commodity of news, and
uncorroboratcd narratives obtain
space in Greek dailies only under
the head of advertisements Phila-
delphia Ledger.