Savings Week
Sir, —The comments of the chairman of the New Zealand Savings Committee on the letter of .“Bewildered” are as unimpressive as was your editorial, good as far as it went, which provoked that letter. You used about a dozen column inches of space to persuade people to save but, day after day, the space you devote to extravagent commercial advertising of doubtful economic utility, urging them to spend, is measureable in thousands of column-inches. Indirectly the public pays for such advertising and in doing so subsidises your paper. In return is it unreasonable to expect that your correspondence columns should be open for untrammelled discussion of a vital subject (not to be mentioned) to one aspect of which in today’s paper you devote almost two columns of editorial Comment? And this without once referring to the basic issues behind the matter.—Yours, etc., SCRUTINEER.
October 11,1967. [“Scrutineer” would be more correct if he said that he is subsidised by the advertisers. The purchase price of his paper barely covers the cost of the newsprint.—Ed., “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31498, 12 October 1967, Page 12
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177Savings Week Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31498, 12 October 1967, Page 12
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