Democratic Programme
STATION 2ZB’s Sunday night Citizens’ Forum provides a good illustration of the positive use of that usually derided (and justly derided) body, the studio audience. Now, usually one thinks of the studio audience as one knows it from the Bob Hope or Bing Crosby shows, a collection of sycophantic automatons schooled to respond with Hitler-Youth precision to the placarded "Laugh," "Whistle," "Shout ‘Atta Girl’." The studio audience at Citizen’s Forum is a much more democratic institution, and amply justifies its place in the programme by contributing considerably to the life and spontaneity of what is already to live and spontaneous expression of opinions. I am tempted to compare last Sunday’s Immigration discussion with the recent Monday discussion from 2YA on the report of the Gaming Commission, and while from the point of view of reasoned argument the 2YA discussion was conducted on a more intelligent level the 2ZB Forum was vastly more entertaining. And for this the studio audience deserves a fair measure of the credit. j
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 454, 5 March 1948, Page 12
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169Democratic Programme New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 454, 5 March 1948, Page 12
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