NEWSPAPERS AND CRISUD

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 202, 3 July 1939, Page 4

NEWSPAPERS AND CRISUD

fiX' AG GKX ATKIN DEN IEI > BRISBA XE, J.vug A. •Tlie- s>:ggG- ■ - tion that newspapers' manuiacture rr exaggerate crises lor their own picnt is a fantastic delusion,” said the president, Hr. Llcyd Dumas, of Adelaide, to-day, in opening the Austin! ian nowsapers’ Conference. “If a crisis could be averted by tli© silence of the pressjaiul if Australian newspapers thought s only ef their own profits,” added M:r. Dumas, '‘not a word of what has happened in Europe in-recent mouths -would have been published. Australia would know nothing of tlie threat to world peace, and would still be Jiving self-ccmpiac- ~ ontlv in its fool’s paradise in the same scandalous condition of unpreparedness as that in which the September crisis found- it. jk “But the great mass of Australians know that, in the'press of this ccmntiv, they are getting a picture; of events, both at home ail'd abioad, as fair and objective as is obtainable anywhere in the world.”