Fleet Street
LOOK with faint derision now on my hitherto respectfully received daily paper since hearing H. R. G. Jefferson’s first talk in the series The London Popular Press. Poor foolish desert flower, I think, growing unassailed by
the docks and nettles of stimulating competition for the benefit of a mere
handful- not even an exclusive one-of readers. And then, abandoning the metaphors that the good journalist does not mix, I feel very grateful to Mr. Jefferson for givine us
this enlightening account, in plain facts and figures, of London’s daily paperstheir nature, their politics, and their public. It gave us a chance, as New Zealanders, to learn something of a Press in comparison with which ours. is a pamphlet pre-addressed, "To the Householder." It also gave Mr. Jefferson a chance to make some shrewd comments which in our ignorance we cannot even question. The fact that he chose this particular topic for his opening talk seéms to indicate that he has had our poverty and ignorance in this matter brought home to him.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 455, 12 March 1948, Page 8
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174Fleet Street New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 455, 12 March 1948, Page 8
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