ABSTRACT
The Greek crisis seems like an economic and political problem per se. The Greek crisis goes far beyond this as it is interwoven into additional parameters which explain the drama and influence the implementation of reforms as well as the quality of citizens’ everyday lives. Corruption in Greece was a main issue that foreign journalists focused on in their coverage of the crisis. The view that the country was a corrupted one was reproduced in the media discourse while it was often connoted that such a tradition had been incorporated in the Hellenic Republic, thus affecting several areas of public life. These included the judiciary system, hospitals, the police and tax offices and the Greek people themselves. Covering the daily life of Greek citizens, foreign journalists also analysed the quality of public service within the crisis framework. Foreign journalists had additional opportunities to deal with the strikes in the Hellenic Republic.
