CONTROVERSIAL BROADCASTS
ATTITUDE OF THE PRIME MINISTER. NO REFERENCE TO LATEST CASES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. The Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, Prim* Minister, to-day stated his attitude to controversial and advertising broadcasts, though he would not comment specifically on the Krishnamurti or Shaw eqilogue prohibitions. “Up to the present the Government has tried to keep broadcasting in New Zealand as clear as possible of controversial matter as being distasteful to listeners,” he said. “The Broadcasting Board desires to keep broadcasting here on as popular lines as possible. A chief object is to keep it free of advertising matter, which is certainly not one of the entertaining features- of broadcasting in other countries. It seems rather a misuse of broadcasting to hear intermittently through the programme that it i* being heard through the courtesy of somebody or other’s soap or pills. I fed that the public of New Zealand as a whole endorses the endeavours to keep that sort of thing off the air here. I don’t know anything about Krishnamurti or his ideas.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1934, Page 6
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