"LOOKOUT" SPEAKERS
Sir,-There must be many listeners who, like myself, welcomed the "Lookout" series of comments on World Affairs. Not the least enjoyable feature of these talks was the independent outlook of some members of the panel of speakers. I speak in the past tense, Sir, because some of the most able, and incidentally most independent members of the panel, appear to have been replaced so that now we hear in "Lookout" what we can read almost every day in the editorial columns of our leading dailies. There must surely be room in this "best. little country in the world" -(I quote the politicians) for the free expression of varying interpretations of
world events. Perhaps the difficulty is that the radio has become the docile mouthpiece of the State. In any case I am, along with other listeners, disappointed that there is no longer room on the "Lookout" panel for those who do not share the lookout on world affairs which is popularised by the past papers and adopted by the Gay ment. I respectfully suggest, Sir, that news. paper editors have mote than ‘ epportunity to air their views? hear some of*the others-eyen f° we sometimes. disagree With them! —
W. F.
FORD
(Mount Roskill).
(The practice since "Lookout" began has been to new speakers in from time to time. This means that former speakers. have had to stand down, though some’ of. have returned, and others will undoubtedly return in future.-Ed.) cde,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 621, 25 May 1951, Page 5
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