PROFESSION OF JOURNALISM
View Of Sir William Slim
(Rec. 11.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 20. Journalism was a profession which, more than any other, had moulded the world, the Governor-General, Sir William Slim, said today. Speaking at an Institute of Journalists’ luncheon Sir William Slim told more than 200 journalists and executives he had once considered becoming a journalist. ‘ He said: “Journalism is a great and honourable profession. Journalists have vast power. The simple test of worth for any man in any scale is how he used that power. “The place in the world of this great and growing country of Australia will be decided, I believe, 'in the next 20 years. What it is will depend in no small degree on how the journalists as pressmen, writers and Australians meet the challenge of their own power,” Sir William Slim said. Democracy could not exist without a free press, which could print what it wished, he said.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27434, 21 August 1954, Page 7
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