NEWSPAPERS' DUTY
GIVE TRUTH TO PUBLIC U.S. PRESSMAN’S OPINION (2 p.m.) . PERTH, July 15. Any measure which reduced the number of newspapers in Australia Would he very harmful, Said Mr. Gpofge Welter, ,tM war correspondent of tlie Chicago Daily News, in an address .at the University of Western' Australia RreSsmeri tb-dgy Willingly submitted to military, eensbrship. They no longer attempted tb dodge the eensbrship ds Mf. Winstbh Churchill had done In the Boef War.,, As War correspbhdeht for A L'bfidftrt, paper, Mr. Churchill used .to gen’d despatches in anagram and a'Cfdstib form. However, the public should watch for signs of restrictions Oh journalists who had an Obligation to , give their readers, .the truth, wiihout sparing military or political leaders.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20836, 15 July 1942, Page 4
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