Broadcast Ban Imposed In The Amour Case
(Rec. 11,40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. An iattack on the action of the Joint Committee on_ the Broadcasting of Parliamentary Proceedings in refusing to allow the Australian Broadcasting Commission to rebroadcast an incident which happened in Parliament yesterday is launched by
the Sydney Telegraph today.
The incident was a repetition by Mr Abbott (Country Party) 'of the charges against Senator Stanley Amour, who is chairman of the joint committee.
The incident was broadcast in the ordinary broadcast of Parliamentary proceedings earlier in the day, but was omitted from the evening rebroadcast of question time. No reference was made to it in the afternoon or evening sessions of the A.B.C. stations. The committee held a special meeting and by a majority vote decided to ban from the rebroadcasts of question time the statements by Mr Chifley, Mr Menzies and Mr Abbott concerning Senator Amour. The committee ruled that the statements should be banned because they were not questions within the strictest meaning of the question. The Sydney Morning Herald devotes three columns to the broadcasting ban but has not yet commented editorially on the subject.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 October 1947, Page 7
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