Suppose a man criticising the current journalistic system wrote as follows:— •'When we speak of the freedom of the press we should remember that the individual pressman writes under considerable restrictions in the form of his work, and still more in the bias he is bound to assume." That expresses a very vivid fact, but it does not, perhaps, express it very vividly. Mr. Zangwill has expressed the same thing thus"A public question is like a piece of paper. Much may be written lon both sides, but a journalist must only write on one side." Then anyone can, feel how the pungency of the intellectual protest is perfected t and emphasised by a pungency in the mere verbal form.—G. K. Chesterton. The war clouds hovering over Europe just at present soem to bear the stamp "Made in Germany."—-Detroit Free Press.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14868, 20 December 1911, Page 11
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140Page 11 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14868, 20 December 1911, Page 11
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