CONTROVERSY
Sir,-Before the election you refused to publish a very plainly spoken letter of mine commenting on your editorial titled "Controversy," the excuse given being that it was party-political. In any case, in the absence of a desire to dodge the real issue at stake (your editorial) one would imagine that an editor would blue-pencil any offending sentence or paragraph, and publish in edited form. But you cut it right out! But now the election is safely over perhaps you can permit a few words to the effect that controversy is the one thing which is carefully barred from the air, and there has never been any attempt to discover what listeners want in that direction. Presumably those who do the paying have some slight Tight to
a voice.
A. P.
YOUNG
(Auckland).
(No letter is rejected because it criticises something we have said editorially. Every letter is rejected if it raises party political issues. A little reflection will enable our correspondent to see why.-Ed.).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 395, 17 January 1947, Page 5
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165CONTROVERSY New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 395, 17 January 1947, Page 5
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