Lloyd George's Acquisition of the Daily Chronicle in 1918

IF 0.7 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-07 DOI:10.1017/s0021937100590108
J. M. McEwen
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Five weeks before the armistice in November 1918 an unprecedented thing happened in Britain. The control of a modern popular newspaper passed from private ownership into the hands of the prime minister of the day. Ever since David Lloyd George assumed the premiership twenty-two months earlier there were signs aplenty that relations between Downing Street and Fleet Street had entered a new era. But the sale of the Daily Chronicle to agents of the head of the government went far beyond custom or precedent. Lloyd George's immediate predecessors had remained old-fashioned even in the face of the press revolution wrought by the likes of Sir George Newnes and Alfred Harmsworth (immortalized as Lord Northcliffe). The phenomenon of mass-circulation newspapers had little appeal to great aristocrats like Lord Salisbury and Lord Rosebery, who were very selective in their dealings with Fleet Street. Likewise Herbert Henry Asquith scarcely troubled to hide his Balliol-bred contempt, ever preferring quality journalism to quantity, while Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman seems not to have exerted himself unduly to cultivate and exploit the good will of editors and proprietors.
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劳合·乔治1918年获得《每日纪事报》
1918年11月停战前五周,英国发生了一件前所未有的事情。一家现代流行报纸的控制权从私有制转移到了当时的首相手中。自从22个月前大卫·劳埃德·乔治担任首相以来,有很多迹象表明唐宁街和舰队街之间的关系进入了一个新时代。但将《每日纪事报》出售给政府首脑的代理人远远超出了惯例或先例。即使面对乔治·纽内斯爵士(Sir George Newnes)和阿尔弗雷德·哈姆斯沃斯(Alfred Harmsworth)(被称为诺斯克利夫勋爵(Lord Northcliffe))等人发动的新闻革命,劳埃德·乔治(Lloyd George)的前任们仍然是老派。大规模发行报纸的现象对索尔兹伯里勋爵和罗斯伯里勋爵这样的大贵族没有什么吸引力,他们在与舰队街打交道时非常挑剔。同样,赫伯特·亨利·阿斯奎斯(Herbert Henry Asquith)也毫不犹豫地掩饰他对贝利奥尔(Balliol)的蔑视,他更喜欢高质量的新闻报道,而不是数量,而亨利·坎贝尔·班纳曼爵士(Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman)似乎没有过度地培养和利用编辑和所有者的善意。
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