News Views
"| HE news, I am inclined to complain, "is all very well in its place, but the trouble is it has so many places. It assails me when I surface in the morning, the brightness of its delivery and its assumption of my intelligent interest (at that hour!) driving me reluctantly to the commercials for the sake of the ‘soothing syrup of the Andrews in between. At eight o’clock breakfast I am still unable to give ;it th@ attention which any kind of radio talking demands. At 9 o'clock in the evening I have read it all in the paper, and in any case I am too tired for ‘coneentrated listening after I have made the long and often vain pilgrimage from Auckland to the Bluff in search of the Wellington weather. But on the other hand my irritation at the omnipresence _of the ‘news sessions evaporates in the glow of my gratitude when radio gets a chance to deliver the news at first hand, hot from the sound waves. I just happened to be standing by after the Morning Talk on Monday of last week when I heard an unaccustomed and ini gra burst of solemnly triumphant usic, from which a voice proceeded asking me to stand by, for an important announcement. I to stand by (it scarcely seemed seemly to sit) and was in due course informed that Princess Elizabeth had been safely delivered of a son. The evening papers did their best with banner headlines, but no headline could convey the controlled emotion (synchronised to the heartbeats of listeners) that breathed in the announcer’s voice, and was in itself both hews and commentary.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 492, 26 November 1948, Page 9
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