BRITISH PRIME MINISTER AND THE PRESS.
“To-day the Press is a mighty business organisation, with enormous capital behind it and tremendous fighting) and crushing power. May I, sitting in the seat ‘I occupy, impress upon you all that the more your powers, the greater the mechanical and materialistic forces you can command, the heavier lies .upon your back the responsibility of using that power for Imperial interests and the' good of the Commonwealth to which we all belong? There is no form of property to-day that has more obligations placed upon it to serve than the Press of the Empire. We can easily engage upon a reckless exploitation of public emotion and public ignorance. Let the politician and the Pressman, the statesman a.nd the editor, insist on the circulation of good, sound coinage in opinion, ideas, and ideals.”—Mr Ramsay McDonald.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1930, Page 2
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140BRITISH PRIME MINISTER AND THE PRESS. Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1930, Page 2
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