Retort Courteous
The Sydney “Bulletin" has printed a letter from Mr H L. Verry, managing editor of the New Zealand Press Association, replying to a recent article by Mr Maurice Shadbolt, the New Zealand novelist, on the News Media Act. As he did in a statement issued at the time of the publication of Mr Shadbolt’s article, Mr Verry says that the article contains at least three serious errors of fact in its references to the New Zealand Press Association. “Most New Zealand journalists,” Mr Verry’s letter concludes, “notwithstanding Mr Shadbolt’s suggestion that mental lethargy is their distinguishing characteristic, would have avoided his absurd errors by the oldfashioned practice of checking their facts before publication.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30914, 22 November 1965, Page 14
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