Ears And Eyes
HE events in our sketch on Pages 4 and 5 did not take place exactly as they appear there. They did however happen, and they have been reported with reasonable accuracy. We record them because they are important, and because they raise questions to which it is difficult at present to see the answer. For radio is changing us. It is changing our way of life, and it is changing our way of thought-and we may wake up one day to find that it has changed our method of government. So far of course it has not done that, but it did something during the election campaign that has not been done before. It made a large number of electors stay at home to judge of candidates and policies instead of | going to meetings to make up their minds. In that respect it gave us the strangest election campaign we have so far had-a greater concentration on the speeches of leaders, and a more deliberate effort on the part of the leaders to get their whole argument into a two hours’ speech. It was also the case with very many listeners that they could not quite make up their minds whether to sit and listen or to go and see and question. But the real problem was how to use the microphone at the speaking end. It is a problem that has worried preachers and listeners ever since the microphone was taken into the churches, but the election provided the first big-scale test in the field of politics. The length of the political speeches was one difficulty, since no candidate can be expected to be brief before the microphone if he is not going to get another broadcast; but the chief difficulty is the fact that broadcasting calls for a special technique which very few political candidates at present possess. In any case it is not possible to use two techniques at the same _ time-to harangue a meeting and simultaneously speak quietly to the listener by his fireside. Before another Genby his fireside. It was to start people thinking about these problems that our reporter went round the booths.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 223, 1 October 1943, Page 3
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362Ears And Eyes New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 223, 1 October 1943, Page 3
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