Viewers’ Views

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32295, 13 May 1970, Page 3

Viewers’ Views

Letters on television topics are subject to the rules applying to general correspondence. BRIAN EDWARDS

Please allow me to dissociate myself from Pandora’s carping criticism of Brian Edwards. Brian Edwards’s interviews are stimulating, exciting and educational. They are right up to the best international standards. The type of personal attacks by Pandora, which refer to Brian Edwards’s salary quite irrelevantly, will serve only to drive Mr Edwards to Australia or elsewhere, destroying another oasis in the cultural desert that was TV before this outstanding man arrived on our shores.—W. ROSENBERG.

[The suggestion that although Brian Edwards may be the highest paid, “Gallery" would be better if he was I not over-used, and the further suggestion that some viewers like Mr Edwards’s methods and others do not can hardly be regarded as a personal attack. The paragraph to which Mr Rosenberg appears to take particular exception read: “Without Brian Edwards, ‘Gallery’ is less stimulating, or less inclined to induce blood pressure, according to the point of view. He may be the highest paid man in New Zealand in his line of work but ‘Gallery’ might be all the better if he appeared less regularly.” —PANDORA.] FOR THE CHILDREN

Sandy Laidlaw and his fellow Nelsonians are very lucky. They obviously do not receive television from the N.Z.8..C. We poor souls in the south watch N.Z.B.C. television and miss all the lust and corruption Sandy and his pals are lucky enough to witness. We long to see on CHTV3 “half-nude passionate kissing scenes.” Our perverted family is denied the privilege of seeing vice and sin in CHTV3’s children's programmes. We in Christchurch have a different censor from the one operating in Nelson. Our censor obviously sees rottenness in everything, so he multilates even the children’s programmes. We long to live in Sandy’s sleepy world where the populace is entertained by a different television network.—LUSTY.