NATIONAL ORCHESTRA
Sir,-I wish to discuss two implications in the letter from Mr. J. W. Heenan, published in ‘your issue of April 3. The purpose of Mr. Heenan’s letter was, he says, to "make your readers aware" that Dr: Beaglehole’s article was not, in his _ belief, written "in good faith." It is, unfortunately, only too common in politics to slander your opponent if you cannot confute him. It is alarming that Mr. Heenan should have introduced this method ‘of argument into a discussion of our National Orchestra. The real question is whether Dr. Beagléhole’s article was correct or not. This is the question Mr. Heenan runs away from, It’ is a question which Dr. Finlay -has discussed in detail, and one on which we must each of us ¢ome to our own conclusions, on the merits of the case, and on nothing else. The other point I feel bound to refer to is Mr. Heenan’s final paragraph, and his implication that The Listener is fouling its own nest (the Broadcasting Service as a whole) in printing an article which Was in some measure critical of another part of the NZBS (the National Orchestra). Surely, in Heaven’s name, the responsibility of The Listener is to its readers, the radio listeners, not to its colleagues, the .adio workers. We have little enough journalism of independence and integrity in New Zealand, and let us encourage, not abuse, any sign of it *thate appears.
ORMOND
WILSON
(Bulls).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 408, 18 April 1947, Page 5
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243NATIONAL ORCHESTRA New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 408, 18 April 1947, Page 5
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