PRESS FREEDOM
MAINTENANCE VITAL OPINION OF MINISTER ABUSES BY SECTIONS LONDON, July 19. The Attorney-General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, in a speech at Battersea, said there was nothing more dangerous to democratic government than that the press should be gagged or its freedom in any way curtailed, but there was never a time when certain sections of the press more seriously abused this freedom. Certain English papers distorted facts and disguised opinion as fact, but there was no legal remedy because the fullest freedom of discussion must be maintained. The freedom of the press must be preserved, but the truth about current affairs must be made available to the public. No one really cared about Lord Beaverbrook’s private opinions. If it were not for honest papers like The Times. Manchester Guardian, Yorkshire Post and a few others, the people of England would be completely misinformed. If everyone realised the financial and other relations between the various newspapers, there would be less danger of the press abusing its freedom.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22079, 22 July 1946, Page 5
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