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 36 The Newspaper World. more space to fuller reports of our debates." Since the time these words were uttered at the Newspaper Press Fund Festival, over which his Lordship presided, the tendency has certainly not been towards the lengthening of Parliamentary reports in the morning journals. In other departments also, condensation and compres- sion are the order of the day. If there are more leaders than heretofore, they are shorter ; and home news is either reduced to the most meagre extent or omitted altogether. In addition to the ordinary foreign cabled correspondence, the special correspondents, in times when events of world- wide importance are occurring, are readily given much space in the modem morning paper. Politician, financier, sportsman, dramatist, author, artist, all make certain demands on the space of the morning journal which cannot be refused, and it is almost out of the question to accede to these demands, except in the present recognized fashion. It is hardly to be expected or desired that the metropolitan morning Press should become very different from what it is, so far as the kind of news given is con- cerned. The Englishman expects that his morning news- paper shall be as solid as his morning meal. He wants, as far as possible, sound, substantial facts about public affairs with which to begin the day. The Times stands pre-eminently at the head of this class of newspaper, and the unusual care taken in every department of its report- ing, causes its reports to be quoted with a reliance on their accuracy which is not felt with regard to the briefer accounts in other daily newspapers. Irrespective of policy, most of the morning papers of London are solid, dignified productions, dealing soberly with the facts of everyday life, and caring more for high Imperial politics than for topics of less exalted interest. Interviews only find a place when cabled from abroad. Two or three have, however, of late replaced their summary by an en-