ATTACK ON THE PRESS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 404, 10 April 1937, Page 4

ATTACK ON THE PRESS.

Mr. Scrimgeour’s Quotation. Press Association—Copyright. Invercargill, April 9. The New York Times has no knowledge either of an editor named John S' 1 ’’inion or of an a Track on the Amorl:an newspaper Press which was attributed to him by the controller of the na ional commercial broadcasting service, Rev. C. G. Ccrrimgeour, in a broadcast address from the Friendly Road station at Auckland last Sunday night in the course of an attack on the New Zealand Press. Mr. Scrimgeour expressed his agreement with a quotation attributed l to “John Swinton,” whom he referred to as former editor ot the New York Times. In this Swinton was alleged to have stated that there m’as no such thing as a free and independent Frees in America and that the business of the journalist was to d<e«.troy truth and to pervert and vilify, to sell himself and his country tor his employers. The Southland Times tent the following cable to the New York Times: “Have you or any other New York paper had an editor named John Swinton? is his alleged -attack on newspaper Press fact or fiction?" The following reply was received to-night from the Newt York Timet: “Swinton unknown to us; likewise his attack.”