"As far as I can see you are fortunate in New Zealand in that you have reputable, clean newspapers,” said Sir Percy Meadon, Director of Education in Lancashire, in an address in Christchurch on Wednesday. “I notice that they give more space to education than the English newspapers, which shows that they have influenced opinion.” The speaker referred to the dangers to independent thought of newspapers which did not take “a balanced view.” He had "tested” certain English newspapers by this standard at the time of the armaments inquiry. He had found examples of over-emphasis on the side of State manufacture of arms, and also on the other side. “It might be called the gentle art of suppression, or emphasis—or distortion,” he said.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20783, 19 July 1937, Page 12
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