Summary
Contents
'This comprehensive, easily accessible book will be a helpful companion to students and researchers alike... [a] superb guide to "The Media in Europe”.' - Journal of European Affairs Completely rewritten, the Third Edition of this successful guide to European media systems has also been expanded to include Central and Eastern Europe as well as Western Europe. Covering 23 countries, the volume highlights and explains key issues of debate and current tendencies in media policy and provides basic statistics relating to each case study.The chapters are written by an expert from the country concerned. Most of these are members of the Euromedia Research Group, a research collective that has been active for more than 20 years and has produced a series of assessments of media policy developments in Europe.
Greece
Greece
National Profile
Greece is a small European country, located on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula in the south-eastern part of Europe. By the middle of the nineteenth century, Greece had just emerged from over four centuries of Ottoman rule. Thus for many decades Greece was confronted with the tasks involved in the process of nation building, which has had consequences in terms of the formation of the over-extended character of the state.
The total area of the country is 132,000 km2, while its population is of 11.5 million inhabitants. Most of the population, about 4 million, are concentrated in the wider metropolitan area of the capital, Athens. This extreme concentration is one of the side effects of the centralized character of the modern Greek ...