JOURNALISTS' SUBMISSIONS TO BRITISH PRESS INQUIRY
(ißec. 9 a.m.) LONDON. July 16. The National Union of Journalists suggested to the Royal Commission-ba-the Press that it should investigate the possibility of encouraging newspaper ownership into an approved kind of trust, laying down the rights of editors. A report of the evidence published by the Stationary Office said the journalists also nked for a reformed law of libel, a fixed ration of advertisements to editorial space, and restrictions of, certain forms of sales promotion. The union suggested that the financial interests of a newspaper proprietor in a subject discussed in any editorial should be indicated over tlia editorial, and that a statutory professional body should be created similar to the General Medical Council or thf Board of Film Censoro.
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Evening Star, Issue 26155, 17 July 1947, Page 7
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127JOURNALISTS' SUBMISSIONS TO BRITISH PRESS INQUIRY Evening Star, Issue 26155, 17 July 1947, Page 7
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