Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-03-24
JOURNALISM IN GREECE.
Newspapers Have Big Titles and
Small CALCULATIONS.


Small Calculations.
The newspapers Of Greece, the king
dom of George l., do not take very
high rank in Europe either in respect
to their progressive features or their
extensive circulation. The standard
size of Greek paper is 1910 inches,
and there are usually four pages de-
voted to the discussion of political
and theological matters with an occa-
sional reference to local occurrences,
when adequate coToboration has been
obtained.
Athens, the capital of Greece, has
about the same population as Grand
Rapids, Mich. The ancient Greek
city maintains, however, nine daily
newspapers, not one of which has
more that 5000 circulation. The
names of these papers are themselves
a fair indication of the solemnity
which governs the periodical publca-
ton business in Greece. There are
the Ora (The HOUR; the Plnghenesia
(Regeneration); Neal Ideal New
ldeas); Alon (The People,; Toia
(AIorning) and Telegrafus The Tele-
gram). There are, moreover, in Ath-
ems two weekly papers published in
the French language. The Journal
d'Athenes, and LIE Messenger OATH
enes. These two newspapers are de-
signed especially for the enlighten-
ment, instruction and perusal OF
tourists and resident diplomats. The
partiality of such diplomats for
weekly newspaper published 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: Epi-
theorists Pilologika Kai Politiki. The
circulation of this journal is not so
extensive as it's name would indicate.
In Corfu, city larger than Athens,
and which does an extensive COM
merce with foreign countries, there is
published the Amersiptos (The
Voice., and in the town of Tripolis
is published a journal with the odd
title of the Provisional Voice. The
town Of Zante is chiefly known in the
United States on account of its cur
rants, and it would bea not unreasona-
bic inference that at least one of the
two papers published in Zante had a
commercial or at least conventional
title. But the Greeks in journalism,
as in other literature, are nothing if
not serious and so the publishers of
these two papers call them respective
ly Agon and Elpis. The English
equivalent of the former is "The
Struggle;;' of the latter, the English
equivalent is 'Hope." There is a
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
bi-weekly. They are published sepa-
rately and in fact in opposition 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 ex-
tensive title of Emporikos Paratiritis,
and in the ancient, illustrious and his
toric town of Sparta there are tbs
Peloponnisiakos Astir and the Lo-
ponnisiakos Eos. Journalism in mod
ern Sparta is somewhat astronomical,
the significance Of one of the Sparta
papers being the "Peloponnesian
Star" and of another the 'Pelopon-
nesian Aurora" The Greek newspa-
pers deal sparingly with the com
modify Of news, and uncorroborated
narratives obtain space in Greek news
papers only under the head Of adver-
tisements.-N. 7. Sun.
Candid.