"THE QUIZ KIDS"
Sir,-If what your>correspondent says is correct it would seem that these "quiz kids" are almost paid Commercial Broadcasting performers. Quite apart. from the fact that it would be fairer to share the money round, the idea is undesirable. There is a lot of prompting by the compére, many guesses are allowed, and it seems that the guest quiz kids are carefully picked, because they are never in the money. It should not become a matter of "easy money" ‘for
a few, apart from commercialising our youngsters. If advertisers have so much money to give away, there are plenty of deserving people in the country who could do with it. The quiz kid business is being overdone, and the sooner certain features of it are abolished the better. No one cavils at harmless amusement for perhaps some reward, but it should not be allowed to become a commercialised business with its obvious undesirable features.
OBSERVER
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 544, 25 November 1949, Page 7
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158"THE QUIZ KIDS" New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 544, 25 November 1949, Page 7
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