Attitudes alter over journalism

Press, 22 October 1981, Page 6

Attitudes alter over journalism

A champion of the British Commonwealth, Mr Derek Ingram, managing editor of a news service and co-chair-man of the Commonwealth Journalists’ Association, told Christchurch journalists last evening that Third World countries had become disenchanted with Western journalists. even though they shared the knowledge that people wanted to know more about “bad” news than “good.”

The Commonwealth Journalists’ Association was still in a formative stage, but it was being welcomed in all the countries of the Commonwealth as an organisation that would link professional people such as architects, surveyors, nurses, planners, and magistrates who already had Commonwealth organisations. It was sad to see uninformed opinions such as those of Mr Bob Jones, the New Zealand property developer and entrepreneur, who had said that the Com-

monwealth had outlived its usefulness, Mr Ingram said. “The reality is that it is making itself more and more useful, and today it is more relevant to our world than it has ever been . before,” he said. .