RADIO AND POLITICIANS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 32, 7 August 1934, Page 8

RADIO AND POLITICIANS

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Air. McKeen is reported to have said that .the broadcasting people are out of touch with the public, but how much more is he out of touch when ho advocates that Parliamentary debates bo broadcast? I venture to say that not 1 per cent, of listeners want to hear the speeches of political parties over the air, and I am'one who will cancel his liceneo immediately such a state of affairs comes about. The more the radio service is kept apart from politicians the better. They showed very clearly in the recent debate that they should not be permitted to intrude.—l am, etc., KEEP OUT. (To the Editor.) Sir, —The person who is ignorant from lack of opportunity to,learn is still worthy of respect, but what of, ha ' who remains ignorant from choice, and who would deprive others from gaining knowledge—not necessarily instruction —so that he may not be the odd man? Of "Wellington's two stations, both emitting recorded "music,1" one of them could with advantage bo placed at certain limes at the disposal of our representatives in Parliament, i Thero need be no •compulsion to listen] and it would be something different from the wearying repetition of "canned music >' "Music Lover" would subject all listeners to without option.—l am, etc., ,T. MILLEE.