The Greek Connection by James H. Barron

Author:James H. Barron [Barron, James H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2020-07-28T00:00:00+00:00

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ON THE THIRD anniversary of the dictatorship, Athenian streets and highways were lined with signs proclaiming: “Long Live the 21 of April,” “Long Live the Army,” and “Long Live the National Government.”15 Some oblivious visitors had difficulty distinguishing life there from that in the country’s democratic neighbors. An amended press code lifted strict “preventive” press censorship, substituting instead an insidious form of self-censorship. Papers were free to publish factual accounts so long as neither the subject matter nor related commentary were deemed derogatory. The junta also used its power to inflict economic punishment on publications that strayed, selectively applying newsprint taxes, restricting provincial circulation, withholding government advertising, and conducting random inspections for alleged irregularities. The regime had forced Ethnos to take a multi-million-drachma loan from the National Bank and install a government nominee to oversee operations. When the historically liberal paper decided to test the limits of censorship, the government called in its loan, forcing Ethnos into bankruptcy.16

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