HOPES AND THE REALITY.
Sir,-Congratulations to the person responsible for the leader "Desperation. Plus" in The Listener of April 13. In these times we can offord to exercise a
little tolerance and fair play if only to offset the opposite qualities so blatantly rampant in the world Press of to-day. Incidentally, the fifth last line of your article defines morale as "discipline and belief," and this striking and evocative phrase must serve to justify what follows. Ever since I became acquainted with the miracle of .radio-as late, Sir, as 1934, having tarried over-long in desert places-I have been a fairly assiduous listener, and have hoped that much good might accrue from popular radio. Alas! like writing to the press, this hope falls far short of expectations, so I feel assured that this present plaint must go the way of other efforts to "regulate the Universe." It would be superfluous to elaborate the subject of popular broadcasting beyond the essentials enumerated by your correspondent Philip A. de G. Howell, to whom likewise congratulations are due for his attempt to stay the tide that is sweeping every-day and everyhour radio through a channel of mud and slime instead of carrying it over a bed of clean sand and hard pebbles, i.e., "discipline and belief." Hence these tears, disillusion and scepticism. The realities of life are not all of them sordid, nor yet unduly exciting. As was said of a great radio enterprise during the first months of the war, we do not want "a masterpiece of selective misrepresentation." We want entertainment, amusement, and instruction in rational doses for rational beings, not opiates for morons. I am just half-listening (one of the penalties of radio and writing synchronised) to a broadcast on our relations with another country. Well, I hope, "they" don’t listen in too However, here comes Sinatra (not the worst of ’em by a long shot) and the cultivated and cultured voice of the announcer tells me it’s either Frankie or
blankets for
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RIDIBUNDUS
(Broad Bay, Otago).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 309, 25 May 1945, Page 5
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337HOPES AND THE REALITY. New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 309, 25 May 1945, Page 5
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