Sources Of Information
Sir,—Protection for journalists refusing to disclose sources of information is necessary to protect also those who supply information. They are the buffer between toe bureaucrats and the public who are entitled to know how their affairs are being managed. But there is another side to toe muchvaunted claim of the press to freedom. In practice it amounts to freedom to suppress news and views. Papers today could more rightly be called viewSpapers. There is no clear line of demarcation between news and views. A slight twist can turn news into views or vice versa. Correspondence columns provide evidence of readers’ resistance to the tendency, but even there the editor has the last word by an arbitrary limit of 150 words or “no space for such discussion.” Hie viewspapens abuse their duty as newspapers—Yours, ytc W. B. BRAY. Leeston, February 25, 1963.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30066, 26 February 1963, Page 3
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