UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 March 1916, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

MORE NEWS WANTED. "UNIMAGINATIVE STUPIDITY." Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, March 10. The Times' correspondent at Washington says that one of the commonplaces of the war there is. that the British publicity work has been bungled, but it is due to London, not to Washington. It is through the unimaginative stupidity of our censorship and the inability of our statesmen and military authorities to understand how news should be dished up to the American public that the Germans would have stolen a really useless march unless hindered by the clumsiness of Count Bernstorff's' satellites. If we waHt the full value of American interest and sympathy during the next vital mouths, the first thing wc should do is to give American correspondents at the front the fullest opportunity for prompt and picturesque writing, and their colleagues in London better material for the explanation of our position and the various controversies with the United States, instead of the ponderous official statements or stereotyped interviews given by officials to a score of people at the same time. Any competent American journalist could tell Downing Street how the thing should be done.