The Provincial Daily Press
Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at the annual dinner of the Newspaper Society last Tuesday, recalled the serious daily papers on which he was brought up in his youth, and contrasted them with the exciting but enervating popular newspapers of today. But he pointed out— and the fact was discussed some time ago in The Spectator —that the provincial papers in the main have preserved the essentials of the old tradition ; and to this soundness of, the Press in the provinces he is inclined to attribute in no small degree the solidity of opinion throughout the country. Perhaps the real distinction is between the mass-production " national " paper, which is a mainly commercial product, and the independent paper, which is represented by a few daily journals in London and holds its own so magnificently and against odds in the • provinces.
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