LORD NORTHELIFFE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1922, Page 4

LORD NORTHELIFFE

I* A HIS, .March 7

The Neucste Nachrichten, of Dresden, devotes its columns to a. study of Lord Northeliffe, whose name, it points out, was in everybody’s mouth during the last stages of the war, when (he British propaganda system began to work at full pressure. “Every fresh rumour, every piece of had news, every hunger demonstration in the streets, every pacifist revolt, in fact, everything which told of coming catastrophes, everything which embodied hostility to Germany, nil these were attributed to Northeliffe. Northelilfe was an illusion, Northeliffe was a myth. In the same way our greatgrandfathers saw in Napoleon the spirit of evil. Since the time of Napoleon nobody had been so hated in Germany. One watched occurrences with a picture of Northeliffe and one sees a surprising resemblance between him and the first Nanoleon.”

The writer declares Lord Northeliffe has given journalism a new form and made it a new art, Imt adds a ridiculous statement that a newspaper under Lord Northcliee’s control is a tissue of sensationalism. Tn closing he declares that the Northeliffe problem remains, because in laird Northeliffe are incorporated all the enormous possibilities of the Press of the future and all the treniemlnifs dangers existing in this connection.

Tie mentions that the Bishop of Limburg, in the course of a Lenten pastoral on the necessity of n hotter organisation of the Catholic Press throughout the world, points out that the Press offered the greatest assistance to the Allies during the war.