Television
Sir, —“Keep on Snoring, New Zealand” mentions that few people in this country use the shortwave frequencies on their receivers. Might I point out that it is most difficult for a man to tune a radio properly while holding a racebook in one hand and a beer glass in the other. Thus the typical New Zealander is for ever deprived of the opportunity to learn at first hand what other peoples think, and allege that they have achieved. This rather insular outlook is often encouraged by the authorities. Recently when a rocket landed on the moon, 3YA kept gaily en irith its broadcast to kindergarten children and 3ZB
produced Aunt Daisy on schedule. Had a race result or a football score come to hand, it would have been broadcast immediately, but the landing of a mere moonrocket did not warrant a newsflash. Moscow called their special programme “The World is Listening,” but of course they meant the intelligent countries.—Yours, etc.,
OUT OF THIS WORLD. September 22, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29008, 24 September 1959, Page 7
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