FUNCTION OF THE PRESS
REFLECTION OF PUBLIC OPINION
It was the business of the press to reflect public opinion to the Government. and within limits it should criticise said Major the Hon J. J. Astor in an address at Oxford University. It was for the men in the street to form the final opinion and to approve or reject Governments, and they had proved worthy of that trust. There was a definite limit to the powet of the press. He had never regarded the 8.8. C. as a rival but rather as an ally, helping the public toward an intelligent understanding of the facts, and so it had proved to be. Parliament and the press must stand together. Without the press. Parliament would be little more than a secret debating society. Describing the suppression of the free press m Germany, Major Astor said the time did not appear to be ripe for any propaganda which could affect the mentality of the German people, but for other countries it was important that Great Britain’s effort should be put plainly before world opinion.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1940, Page 9
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181FUNCTION OF THE PRESS Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1940, Page 9
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