POSERS, PENALTIES, AND PROFITS
»ir,-sSomething is wrong with a Broadcasting Service which rewards ignorance with costly prizes. I refer to the Posers, Penalties and Profits session. In the Christchurch broadcast on April 29, the compére ignored one incorrect answer (which was clearly audible to the listener) and repeated the question in such a way that the right answer became obvious. The candidate was rewarded with a vacuum cleaner, Admittedly the questions asked in these sessions are trivial, but this surely makes it even less desirable to give such a high value to a knowledge (and equally, it seems, am ignorance) of trivial details.
J. I.
SLATER
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 465, 21 May 1948, Page 5
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107POSERS, PENALTIES, AND PROFITS New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 465, 21 May 1948, Page 5
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