BROADCASTING SCARE
WOMEN SUFFERING FROM SHOOK. ■ vl NEWSPAPER COMMENTS. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright! LONDON, January 18. Many women are suffering from shock as a result of Father Knox’s broadcasting riot “joke,’’ and the question arises as to the Broadcasting Company’s liability for damages. The non-arrival of the Sunday newspapers, dwing to the snow-block-ed railways, intensified the alarm in isolated districts., whore it is still believed the news is being censored. The Daily Express says that the company’s discreditable piece of folly might have had serious results if it had been perpetrated in the holiday time when the newspaper offices were closed, because wireless showed itself incapable of overtaking the rumor.—Sydney Sun Cable. COMPANY UNCONCERNED. LONDON, January 18. Tho Broadcasting Company regards (with complacency tho outburst against tho burlesque news. It has received hundreds of appreciative letters, and says that it was mainly Lowlanders, not Scottish people, who failed to enjoy the joke. The company asks: “Was it conceivable that we should immediately follow the disastrous news with jazz band selections? The fact that a single individual was deceived is a matter for regret, and we promise to prevent a recurrence of the incident.”—Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19692, 20 January 1926, Page 7
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