Reporting on tour
Sir, — The recent comments by a member of the Canterbury Rugby Football Union on one-sided reporting by news media on South Africa are fully justified. The news media include the Radio N.Z., which grants numerous interviews to Mr T. Richards of H.A.R.T., but denies similar opportunities to pro-tour speakers. A classic example of slant in our newspapers has been the suppression of a pro-South African statement by Bishop S. C. Bradley, an Australian who has worked in South Africa since 1963. Against this has been the publicity given to the utterances by the Rev. J. Osmers, a cleric from Lesotho, a former British protectorate. I have just read a report on conditions in Lesotho — grim reading. Every form of graft, corruption, unemployment, assassinations, and coups d’etat — the one-party State at its best. The impertinence of this person in criticising White South Africa, and separate development, in view of the conditions in his own back yard, is beyond belief. — Yours, etc., THE WALRUS. ' September 5, 1975.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33942, 8 September 1975, Page 12
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168Reporting on tour Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33942, 8 September 1975, Page 12
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