DUTY OF NEWSPAPERS.
KEEPING WORLD UP TO DATE. MR. BERNARD SHAW'S OPINION. LONDON. May 8. "Tho greatest service journalism renders to the public is to provide it with a mind." said Mr. Bernard Shaw at a luncheon given by the Institute of Journalists. "We are suffering because the people have a terrible 'time lag.' The duty of journalists is to abolish it, and to make the pcoplo understand that the world is continually changing. "It is no use trading on ideas that aro obsolete before they arc born. We have not yet realised that tho Russian revolution has come to stay, and, consequently, we have lost a magnificent commercial chance. A great trade is being built up in Russia without our capital and machinery. "Do not start a time lag about the Austro-German customs union. They arc bound to unite nationally."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20869, 11 May 1931, Page 9
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