ABSTRACT
Previous chapters have been largely about the challenges faced by the ‘national’ journalistic media: those which are distributed throughout the geographical territory of the UK. But the UK is not a nation so much as a collection of nations, which are in turn divided into myriad regions and communities, each with its own distinctive characteristics. England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales all possess particular cultural identities, in addition to being ‘British’. In England, the North is perceived very differently from the South, while in Scotland, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and the surrounding conurbations have as much to separate as to bind them together culturally.
