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»ir,-L. A. Doyle’s letter in your issue of February 18 tells us nothing of value about The Listener, but it tells us a lot "about the mental limitations of L. A. Doyle. I could pity him if he had not been so rude and dogmatic. Let us examine the issue which contains his letter in the light of his statement that apart from the programmes The Listener is "mere shaving paper." It reveals him as one who is not interested in intelligent and well-written leading articles on questions of the day, the opinions of his fellow-listeners matter nothing to him, the outer world can go hang for. all he cares to read about it, various aspects of our war effort leave him cold, and even the vitally important meat-rationing experiment that he will have to submit to next week just makes him yawn. If it is too much to expect him to be interested in Russia and her peoples or the future of the German nation, perhaps his own health and food would touch him. But it’s all just "junk" to him: even the only honest film criticism printed in this country or the woodcuts of genius that adorn many of the articles. I refuse to believe that the rest of Jackson’s Bay share his views, as he affirms they do. Go ahead, Mr. Editor, with your stimulating’ and unique paper, and let the heathen rage.
GRATEFUL
GEORGE
(Invercargill).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 246, 10 March 1944, Page 7
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241SHAVING PAPER New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 246, 10 March 1944, Page 7
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