NEWS BROADCASTS
Sir,-"Too Much BBC's" letter (May 41) draws attention to a feature which is sadly in need of reconsideration-the BBC news broadcasts. These broadcasts
were of intense interest during the war years, but now are almost completely lacking in interest to the average New Zealander. While many listeners. completely ignore them, others find them a source of great irritation because they merely repeat in another wording what has already appeared in the daily papers, and because of the method of presenta-tion-the headlines, the actual news, and a repetition of thé headlines. The value of a continuation of the news broadcasts should have been weighed up at the conclusion of the war, but as is the case with some serials, they are continued and continued until people hate the very name of them, and on announcement of the title switch off their sets. The time taken up with the broadcasts, and wasted, could be much better employed in an extension of the gardening notes and advice, which are of general interest and of very real value to at least one person in every household throughout the country.
ANOTHER
WANGANUI-ITE
(Wanganui).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 622, 1 June 1951, Page 5
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190NEWS BROADCASTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 622, 1 June 1951, Page 5
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