The Attic Rhetor, Lpqy Magna's municipal broadsheet, is an amalgamation as peculiar as the nation which so eagerly follows its editorial columns—that is to say, Areopagitican. Widely considered one of the oldest surviving dailies, the paper eagerly points to pieces of partially preserved papyrus recovered from under a dusty couch of the Pious Household as proof (why that wing of the palace had not been touched for several hundred years is a matter better left undiscussed) of their long standing continuity. Unsurprisingly, what can be discerned from the remaining fragments of legible writing is a published debate between two Eparchs on what wood should be used to properly burn a heretic. Sadly enough, neither Eparchs' full names are mentioned in full and the frequency of the debate in question precludes any historical certainty of the debate's era. After all, the two sides bear eerie similarities to the editorial opponents of the last Christ Mass Special.
In raw terms, The Attic Rhetor is a respectable regional power with little global influence. Widely read in Areopagitican, Antipyragos, Kemetic Libya (within the broadsheet gleefully referred to as "Pagan Occupied Antipyragos") and Abream; it's influence ends there. Uncompromisingly ethnocentric, the paper refuses to print in anything other than Punic though there have been periods of liberalization when it was partially reprinted in the classics such as Latin and Greek. In areas such as Nibelunc, Walmington, Chrinthanium or other progressively minded states it is frowned upon to be seen in polite company with the paper. This is largely because of the creative positions the paper takes with regards to social issues, a mainstay of the editorial section.
The paper is fully owned by the city of Lpqy Magna, which is to say the Himilco the Autokrat. The leader of the Exarchate, the Pious Household (i.e. the royal family, the Eparchs, the Despoti, Lpqy Royal Bank, et cetera) and the armed forces. It is not possible to buy the paper, or is it legal to compete against it in Lpqy Magna. Nevertheless, other papers such as Walmington's The Standard have a sizable market share of the affluent middle class. There is a website, under construction for the last few years, which has shown that while ancient the Rhetor can holds its own in the modern era—in sharp contrast to the vast majority of the country. This can, in part, attributed to the incorrigble new editor-in-chief: Milton Isonn'bal.