RADIO AND POLITICS
POSITION IN BRITAIN
The committee set up to report on the future activities of the 8.8.C. expresses the opinion in its report that controversial topics should continue to be discussed. "From the time of its admission in March, 1928, political broadcasting has become increasingly important. It has been the avowed policy of the 8.8.C. to hold the scales evenly between the various political parties and in this, though there have been occasional criticisms from quarters widely separated, it has on the whole been successful.: It must be recognised as inevitable that more prominence is given "to the leaders of the political party. in power than to the Opposition. There are numbers of occasions on which Ministers of Stale are called upon to make important pronouncements. These necessarily have some political flavour and tend naturally to stress the beneficence of Government activities. It has been said that Parliamentary institutions are on their trial. If that be so, broadcasting is an instrument of great potential value in keeping Parliament before the minds of the people.
"It is in the Parliamentary contest that the issues before the country should emerge, and we think it neces-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 107, 7 May 1936, Page 26
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195RADIO AND POLITICS Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 107, 7 May 1936, Page 26
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