RADIO AND CHILDREN
Sir-How much longer are we going to have to put up with the poisonous, sadistic violence that I have just been listening to from 2ZB-torture of a, bound, tormented man-a_ screaming woman. "That’s the stuff the boys at school gloat over," my twelve-year-old tells me. We blame our children for many things these days-we’re too harsh. They’re the result of the poison we’re feeding them on in radio, films, comics and pulp magazines. It’s time the adult world took a look at itself and sheeted the blame home to the real offenders-the corrupters of young impressionable minds. Is there not enough in our vast heritage of beautiful, worthwhile things that we should descend to
this sordid level to "edify" our children? Is it not time a censorship of our radio programmes was instituted?
C.
MACKENZIE
(Lower Hutt).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 790, 10 September 1954, Page 5
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140RADIO AND CHILDREN New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 790, 10 September 1954, Page 5
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