BROADCASTING AND NEWSPAPERS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22081, 1 May 1937, Page 20

BROADCASTING AND NEWSPAPERS

TO THE BBITOB OF THE PSKSB. Sir, —Without taking any part in the present dispute, it can still be said that the daily paper caters for nearly everyone, especially for the person who wants his news at a glance and is too busy to wait around for it. This fact should not be lost sight of by our public men, for any new act that greatly concerns the people should be advertised in the press, first in its proposed form and again when it becomes law This would give the rabble a chance to tear it to pieces at once instead of having to wait. It is deplorable, but nevertheless a fact, that men who have been pitchforked into high places often require their work to be remod-

elled before it can work, and newspapers give an opportunity for criticism which the broadcast can never give. For instance, the idea of making our roads safer is in itself the finest proposal we have had for years ; yet though a .copy of the new traffic regulations was shortly to be in every home, most of us have still to drive mainly by the old rules, as the information to the contrary is too patchy to take a risk on.—Yours, etc., April 24,1937.'