MODERN NEWSPAPER PRAISED AND BLAMED
j . • . LONDON. [The modem newspaper press came in for criticism as well as praise at the hands of .0. A. McCurdy, in an address before the City Livery Club. The speaker said the press, as ‘/the eyes, the ears and the voice of the thodefn democratic state'•’is indispensable and that its defects were more offset by its virtues. He made some amusing allusions to the progress made by journalism as compared with other branches of industry. “If baking had made similar progress to newspapers," said Mr McCurdy, “we should have our bread delivered, toasted and buttered at a fraction of the present charge. If we take a rough measure of civilisation as the capacity to provide the largest number of pcoplo at the lowest possible cost with the things they unquestionably need, then no industry can rank higher than the newspaper, industry.” The speaker deprecated the publication of “depraved news” and said it was probably one of the greatest setbacks to western culture.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6668, 23 July 1928, Page 3
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