Thin Skins
T first I thought that the discussion from 4YA, "Let’s Have It Out-Are We Thin-Skinned?" was going to prove one of those sessions, so frustrating to the listener, where too much beating about the bush prevents the speakers from ever getting anywhere. Since the average New Zealander’s hyper-sensitiv-ity to criticism was both admitted and deprecated by all speakers, none of them (if any should chance to read this) will
mind my own criticism of the session — namely, that its main faults were its initial slowness, and the rather paagrarind and sometimes ner-vous-sounding deliv- | ery of some of the participants. However, after a short time, the discussion warmed up, the speakers really got‘
to grips with the subject, and the session became both critical and provocative. The danger of being too tactful, as a speaker pointed out, is that the person who refrains from saying what he really thinks often ends by thinking like the herd as well as outwardly behaving and talking.like the herd. And as for the sensitivity of the radio artist who gets a poor hearing from the commen-tator-it is only equalled, I suppose, by the sensitivity of the commentator when his own faulty criticisms are in turn attacked!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 10
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203Thin Skins New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 10
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