FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
sir,-Among the many good things appearing in The Listener may I specially comment on the article on La Prensa and your editorial on De Gaulle’s proposed reform of French newspapers. Freedom of the press, so loudly demanded by newspapermen, does not, as a rule, include deliverance from the tyranny of shareholders or the prejudices of advertisers; these malign influences are denied, with tears of injured innocence, by New Zealand papers, but they exist more or less in all countries, and France has been notorious in this respect. Newspapers ought not to be gagged, but a duly elected government has the right to insist on the publication of certain matter as. a condition of granting a licence.
J.
F.
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 261, 23 June 1944, Page 3
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123FREEDOM OF THE PRESS New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 261, 23 June 1944, Page 3
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