Newspapers and the Soviet Union
Sir,—Sir Robert Muldoon’s chastisement of reporters, editors and newspaper proprietors was timely. The New Zealand newspaper industry is emerging as the champion of the Left, and publicity agent for dissentient groups aimed
to reconstruct society as we know it. Nowhere is this Lettish trend more evident than in the presentation and appreciation of the Soviet threat. Our newspapers, which claim to be the watchdog of the populace, are, with one or two exceptions, silent on this subject. We are in far greater peril now than we were in 1939. Our coasts are ringed by Soviet trawlers and supply ships and the Russian nuclear-armed Pacific Fleet, based on Vladivostok, according to “Time” magazine of April 16, consists of 23 warships plus an undisclosed number of submarines. Defenceless New Zealand is at grave risk. — Yours, etc. ILLINGWORTH MACKAY. Lower Hutt, April 17, 1984.
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