ANNOUNCERS' SLIPS
Sir,-May I suggest that it is a misaken policy to instruct our announcers | to affect an inhuman infallibility. The well-known and well-loved BBC announcers never hesitate to admit errors and slips of the tongue, for which they apologise with spontaneous and polite friendliness; just as I feel sure New Zealand’s announcers would do in private life. An announcer’s voice enters our homes and should behave with unaffected good manners and not pretend to omniscience, which is not an attractive habit in one’s visitors, Sincere interest in what he is saying is the impression one would like to gain from the announcer’s manner; and this would lead automatically to an unobtrusive apology for any mistake or for a faulty recording of a talk such as we were given recently in stony silence.
CECILIA
GREENWARD
(Hastings).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 508, 18 March 1949, Page 23
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136ANNOUNCERS' SLIPS New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 508, 18 March 1949, Page 23
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