BROADCASTING OF DEBATES
PROBLEMS CREATED
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WELLINGTON, September 16. Problems created by the broadcasting of the debates of Parliament were discussed briefly by Mr Speaker .the Hon W. E. Barnard) when replying to expressions of thanks for his control of debates in the House of Representatives to-day. Broadcasting the debates had created some new and unexpected problems, he said. As the present Standing Orders of the House went back to 1929, before there was any broadcasting of debates, it was probably now desirable that the Standing Oiders should be reviewed in the light- of the experience recently gained. "The sensitivity of the microphone is almost a defect," he said. "Parliament has always been a place of argument and of struggle and it might be possible for those who listen to the debates broadcast to i onn opinions of the House that are not in the least warranted- Broadcasting does add greatly to the responsibility of members speaking from their places in the House." __—
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22509, 17 September 1938, Page 25
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