DISGUSTING JOURNALISM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 September 1913, Page 4

DISGUSTING JOURNALISM.

The New Zealand Times, which is described ias the official mouthpiece of the Opposition, has used many despicable means of blackening the Government in the eyes of the public. It has never previously descended to the depths of contemptible meanness and impropriety that it did in .its issue of yesterday, when it endeavoured to create political capital out of the fnn-. 'era!-of the late Sir William Russell. A paper that would comment upon the absence of the Prime Minister and his chief colleagues from the funeral, at >a time when the business of the country required their presence in Wellington, would stoop to anything. It is fortunate for New Zealand journalism, and for the honour of our public life, that wo have few newspapers constructed on the lines of the New Zealand Times, If the graves of public men are not to be held sacred from the attacks of degraded political hucksterers, it is a poor look-out for the future of the country./ The comments of the New Zealand Times over the absence of Ministers from the funeral of Sir William Russell will excite the most profound disgust in the minds of every right-thinking mnn and woman in She community.