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(Rec. 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, April 19
The annual delegates’ meeting of the National Union of Journalists passed a resolution urging the Government to appoint a Royal Commission on the press of Britain. It recommended that the commission should inquire specifically into “the ownership, control and financing jf all newspapers, news agencies and periodicals, the extent to which the growth of powerful chains of newspapers is creating a monopoly of ownership, the ability of independent newspapers to withstand increased competition from syndicate companies, the influence of financial and advertising interests on the presentation and suppression of news, and the dispersion and suppression of essential facts in some roreign news."
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 April 1946, Page 2
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