Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-04-28
JOURNALISM IN GREECE,


some Of the Newspapers Of the Land u
Homer.
The newspapers of Greece, the
Kingdom of George /, do not take
very high rank in Europe, either in
respect to their progressive features
or their extensive circulation. The
Standard size of Greek newspaper
is II liz by inches, and there are
usually four pages devoted to the
discussion Of political and theologi-
cal matters, with an occasional ref
erence to local occurrences, when
adequate confederation has been OBJ
tanned.
Athens, the capital of Greece, has
about the same population as 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 a fair indication of the So
lemnity which covers the periodical
publication business in Greece.
These are The Ora (The Hour),
The Plinghhenesia Degeneration,
Neail Ideal (New Ideas), Aion (The
People,, Toia (Morning) and Tele-
graftus (The Telegram) There are,
moreover, in Athens two weekly pa
pers published in the French Ian
guage, LIE Journal d'Athenes and
LIE Messenger d'Athenes. These two
newspapers are designed especially
for the enlightenment, instruction
and perusal of tourists and resident
diplomatists.
The partially of such diplomat
lists for weekly newspaper publish
ed in language other than Greek
may be understood when the fact
is known that the title of the
chief Athenian weekly newspaper is
as follows: Epithorisis Pilologika
Kai Politiki. The circulation Of
this journal is not so extensive as its
name would indicate. In Corfu, a
city larger than Athens, and which
does an extensive commerce with
foreign countries, there is publish
ed the Amersliptos (The Voice., and
in the town of Thipolis is published
a journal with the odd title of the
Provisional Voice
The town of Zante is chiefly
known in the United States on ac-
count of its currants, and it would
be not unreasonable inference that
at least one of the two papers pub
lished in Zante had a commercial or
at least conventional title. But the
Greeks in journalism, as in other
literature, are nothing if not seri-
ous and SO the publishers of these
two papers call them respectively
The Agon and Elpis. The English
equivalent Of the former is The
Struggle, of the latter the English
equivalent is Hope. There is
marked lack of originality in news
paper nomenclature in the Greek
town of Piraeus. It has three news
papers one daily. one weekly and
one biweekly. They are published
separately, and, in fact, in opposi
ton 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 one newspaper,
with the extensive title of Empori-
kos Paratiritis, and in the ancient,
illustrious and historic town of Spar
ia there are The Peloponisiakos As
tir and The ,Loponnisiakos Eos.
journalism in modern Sparta is
somewhat astronomical. the sighifi-
canoe of one of the Sparta papers
being The Peloponnesian Star and
of The Pelonnesian Aurora. The
Greek newspapers deal sparingly
with the commodity of news, and
narratives obtain
space in Greek dailies only under
the head of advertisements. Phila-
delphia Ledger.