BROADCASTING AND THE PRESS.
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LONDON', December 17.—0ivimx evidence before the Broadcasting Committee of Inc.uiry. Lord Riddell. on bell alf of the newspaper proprietors thienghmii Britain. criticised the proposal to increase Hie broadcasting or nevs. Me pointed out that racing and betting items would be objectionable to a large section of the community. and law cases were ui.suitable for the family circle, while political propaganda was only allov.able on special occasions He denied that the newspaper proprietors were nnroasonahle monopolists, but the broadcasting of news might ruriail the circulation of newspapers, causing disastrous results by rendering idle thousands of workers. The newspapers at present, apart from plant and buildings, spent £02.(100,000 annually on production, including £5,000,000 on tbe collection of id'vs for which tbo brondrnstmir companies were using agency reports.— Sydney ‘Sun’ Cable. ■
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Evening Star, Issue 19126, 18 December 1925, Page 10
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135BROADCASTING AND THE PRESS. Evening Star, Issue 19126, 18 December 1925, Page 10
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