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ACCESS TO MR CHURCHILL DEMANDED UNIFORM CENSORSHIP WANTED. CRITICISM OF BROADCASTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, September 21. Access to the Prime Minister. Mr Churchill, the freeing of the Ministry of Information from the paralysing control of the Service Departments, uniformity in censorship, and the elimination ’of 8.8. C. early news broadcasts were demands outlined bj’ Mr W. R. Willis, in his presidential address at the conference of the Institute of Journalists. “There is no valid reason why British newspaper men should not have access to the head of the Government similar to that possessed by our American colleagues with President Roosevelt," he said. Referring to the 8.8. C., Mr Willis said the habit of relying on the socalled news bulletin makes the people uncritical and ready to absorb at face value all they hear from the radio. The 8.8. C. was creating a completely uninstructed and docile mass opinion. This gradual destruction of the critical faculty was a potential political and social danger.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1941, Page 4
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166BRITISH PRESS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1941, Page 4
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