Free paper again
The nine-day-old strike by journalists is still on and “The Press” still cannot be a newspaper. Once again it is offered free to subscribers and to other readers. News may be lacking, but the exchange of information must go on. Our readers continue to exchange views, the advertisers — also our readers — have unnumbered items of information to offer, and we have Ihe means, within the limits imposed by industrial action, to continue to print articles of general interest. Apart from the news of the day, we cannot offer television and radio programmes, or weather forecasts, racing and trotting news, or sports results. We cannot give readers what they expect from us by way of foreign news, or special investigations by our own reporters. Our entertainers are silenced — even those who irritate a little. Reporter’s Diary is not being kept and the markets — for shares, stock, produce — are not being reported. The political parties cannot get their proposals into print. Ail these, and many other items of consequence to readers, will appear in “The Press” in due course. In the meantime, we apologise for their absence.
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Press, 18 October 1978, Page 1
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188Free paper again Press, 18 October 1978, Page 1
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