N.Z.B.C. Censorship?
Sir, —The reply of the news controller of the N.Z.B.C. is evasive and insulting. Failure to deny my specific charge shows that I was reporting a fact that needed no “imagination.” No imagination is needed, either, to find a motive for distorting political news. If it is top policy here to condone treason in another country, it is expedient for those in the employment of the N.Z.B.C. to tone down news which disgusts public opinion in this country. But worse, policy-makers might believe that what they heard was the uncensored original, and commit New Zealand accordingly. lan Smith made it clear that he had not allowed Her Majesty to interfere; the sneaky broadcast version allows extremists to continue hiding behind the pretence that white Rhodesians are rebelling only against a British Labour Government.—Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON.
August 13, 1968. [Mr E. Parkinson, controller of news and current affairs for the N.Z.8.C., replies that he has nothing further to add.]
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31764, 22 August 1968, Page 14
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