PRIVILEGES ABUSED
PRESS ASSOCIATION REPORTS A LABOUR CRITICISM. [ Per Press Association. ) DUNEDIN, Al arch 30. At last night’s meeting of the Otago Labour Representation Committee the following resolution was passed unanimously:— “That this meeting, representing the mass of organised workers of Otago, enters its emphatic protest against the action of the New Zealand Press Association in refusing to publish Air Holland’s reply to the attack made on him by the Administrator of Samoa.
“From the viewpoint of honourable journalism, there was an obligation on the Press Association, having allowed itself to be used as the distributing agent for his vili tiers, to give him the right to reply. Furthermore the fact that members of the Press Association receive such enormous concessions from the Post and Telegraph Department, constituting an equivalent of a substantial subsidy from the Public funds, should lead the Association to recognise that it abuses its privileges, when it makes use of a State concession to circulate propaganda in support of the Reform Party, to defame that party’s opponents, and then to refuse the right of reply to that defamation.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 8
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