| Show 13 1 M g 4 dt W w 2 V 7 att f im 1 C 7 X n L I 1 ra 1 P 1 14 r I 1 NS newspapers A 1010 JL I 1 it i THEY HEY ARE UP U P TO DATE IN SOME THINGS I 1 1 achey kave have the interviewer and nal nfl I 1 H but the great armo HM H a staff ot of only T tanty aty R or thirty men I 1 special detter etter Lo HE greek lc is a great reader ot of newspapers at A t A present newspapers are published in greece with an aggregate circulation of the political journals number 82 litwara lit wary 13 commercial 16 scientific dentine 28 satirical 6 legal 6 and medical 2 new newspapers 8 papers are am to be found in almost e very every town in n baus the mainland and the islands the greek newspapers of at today are written in a language which any one who has studied xenophon will naro no difficulty in understanding the directors are generally men of culture and learning and many of them nave have been triv travelers elers the members bers of the staff are usually graduates of the national university of athens or of the colleges who have taken a special course of instruction to tit fit them for newspaper work there are ten tea first class dailies in athens but no official organ of these ten the following are the semiofficial semi official organs the morning regeneration PaUn genesia and new journal nea ephemeris Eph emerit the opposition journals are the journal times and advance these were until the cretan trouble arose arrayed against the present premier deliyannis the independent newspapers are the acropolis which is supposed to have the largest circulation viz 12 and the asty both of which are in some measure antagonistic to the premier the price of at a newspaper in the streets of athens is one cent a copy american money excepting the acropolis which sells for two cents the only afternoon newspapers in athens are the hestla hestia and regeneration the other dallies dailies are issued in the morning the entire staff of a greek newspaper including business editorial and typesetting departments usually consists of twenty five to thirty men the editorial and city departments seldom s adom have more than seven to ten men the salary paid to an editor ln in chief or managing editor is 40 to 60 per mouth month associate editors and reporters receive 20 to 35 each a month living expenses being very much lower in greece than in this country the compositors get one holiday a week but the editors and reporters have no holidays except christmas new years day easter and one day in july dedicated as a holiday to the typographical union of late years interviewing has grown in favor in greece at first it did not find much favor with those in high places but they finally yielded and the athenian reporter uses his privilege in a manner calculated to give him the highest importance in the eyes of the individual he is interviewing nothing Is more dreaded by the foreign ministers at athens than the interviewing reporter if a reporter is sent to get information from a foreign minister or any conspicuous foreigner he is sure to succeed for if the person he is to interview happens to be out the reporter takes a chair and sits outside of his room in the hotel or if necessary sleeps in the chair all night many words have been coined in greece as translations of reporter and though they are all correct and proper the newspapers stick to the english word the greeks have not yet come to understand the importance of advertising in the newspapers it Is not uncommon however to see a brief letter W r r I 1 kl 1 m M I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 ii I 1 I 1 GEORGE in a newspaper addressed to the editor iron frd a father fa tYer expressing hla chanka to A physician tor for his skill LU in coring this his son ot or daughter of a disease which tamed the skill of other physicians such letters ra are am written an nd d paid for b y the physicians commended two avio of ahe conspicuous athenian journalists are ard george I 1 adu aures r edl dt I 1 lor ae athe I 1 the satirical cal newspaper Paper the tha geoa at andl 7 j ArU tIdes Bou Rou kese kise editor 44 L taisy we re it a i farat toT alse their arvo voices iceie as as ta totne uty q Z abr j eek goi li hia I 1 pres I 1 anti a I 1 MUM 31 1 w so I 1 t agaj 30 Z Z I 1 v A AR dzagan t earl I 1 f r agee glik iter 1 west A h j A i ut R A latr 4 fioS sed res 11 zill aw U C I 1 njg qu g ir ira A pla ji 1 I gi W I sf T za 0 9 hildar Y I 1 W ai i P 1 I I 1 4 0 T ah alj mw aw I 1 5 7 E nw a r aish Ci SH abt r A W ii g V w ft k C W a p I 1 g W 4 0 I 1 I 1 1 1 a i i sa the loucy lot OL the ilae a oes val his Is issued id vee weekly hla his editorial lif and staff consists ot of it appears on saturday evenly evenings 0 0 hut but it is not until Saturday 1 morning lofting at about a 8 when wh en mr mi Is ft in front of thee the coffee afee house hillas hellas sipping his coffee and refreshed shed by the breezes from hyma is that his wife sends from the houss house the jirl girl to remind him that it is th day on which the newspaper Is issued he then leisurely proceeds home and at one sitting he fills the eight column of romeos at 2 the boy from the printers office calls for the copy at 3 30 mr proceeds to the printing office and reads the proofs and at 6 romeos Is on the street the weekly sells rapidly and mr is left to rest from hla his labors until the following saturday during six or eight weeks of the summer the weekly suspends publication the tb days on which it stops and resumes publication depend on the state of mind of the editor I 1 As soon as the dog days commence the editor of romeos finding it more pleast pleasant to breathe the sea air than to fill hla his lungs with athenian dust moves to his summer residence on the hay bay of Pha leron where he remains until the not hat days axe are over no newspaper is in missed so much by an ath athenian ealan as is romeos during the few weeks its publication is suspended and its reappearance is anxiously awaited |
