PARLIAMENTARY BROADCASTS
Sir, —It has been announced that Parliament will be on the air Wednesday and Thursday from 7.30 to 10.30 on all the main stations. We pay our fees for amusement and educational talks. The broadcasts from Parliament are neither one nor the other. It is simply using wireless for political propaganda—in a most unfair manner. The Government members are provided with full details of tho bills to be debated; tho Opposition had not got equal chances. In the last broadcast the Hon. Minister in charge of the bill spent about 10 to 15 minutes of his time explaining ono or two clauses; the rest of his hour talk was political humbug. Ebb and Zeb are bad enough —the Japanese houseboy no better—but these broadcasts disclose what a waste of time and money Parliament is. I suggest that the whole business of broadcasting debates should be called off, and that tho Broadcasting Board should be requested to give us what we pay for. I venture to say a vote of tho listeners would say cut it out. We get an overdose in the press. Protesting Listener.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22406, 30 April 1936, Page 15
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