BRITISH JOURNALISTS’ DEMANDS
ACCESS TO MR CHURCHILL WANTED LONDON, Sept. 20. Access to Mr Churchill, the freeing of the Ministry of Information from the paralysing control of the service departments, uniformity in censorship, also the eliminating of 8.8. C. early news broadcasts were demands outlined by Mr W. R. Willis, in his presidential address at the Institute of Journalists. “There is no valid reason why British newspapermen should not have access to the head of the Government the same as their American colleagues have to President Roosevelt,” he said. Referring to the 8.8. C., Mr Willis said the habit of relying on the so-called news bulletin made people uncritical and ready to absorb at face value all they heard from the radio. The 8.8. C. was creating a completely uninstructed, docile mass opinion. This gradual destruction of the critical faculty was a potential political and social danger.
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Southland Times, Issue 24547, 23 September 1941, Page 9
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