Fair Reporting
Sir, —I am ashamed of “The Press.” You give prominence in the cable , page to news disfavourabie to present government in Rhodesia. From time to time the righteous leading articles press home to us the iniquities and inhumanities of the Smith regime. But when any news favourable to the regime filters through, dp you give
it cable-page space? Certainly not. In today’s issue (March 12) on page 10, overpowered by a flaring supermarket advertisement, and sandwiched in with the shipping, mail notices and “The Girls” we read that 118 Africans, condemned to death for an offence against the State, have had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment. Do you still profess to give the news in an unbiased, objective way, or do you no longer pretend to do this?—Yours, etc., MARY VALE. March 3, 1969. [The cable page is reserved as much as possible for the latest overseas news. News worth recording, as this was, but Which is not the latest, is frequently printed on other pages. Whether a sentence of life imprisonment for bearing arms is “favourable to the Smith regime” is arguable.— Ed., “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31936, 13 March 1969, Page 12
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189Fair Reporting Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31936, 13 March 1969, Page 12
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