RADIO AND TELEVISION
Sir,-According to a N.Z: Truth report of August 20, the recent National Party Conference resolved by a large majority to urge the Government to appoint a Royal Commission to investigate and report on all questions relating to television and on "the advisability of perpetuating the present State monopoly of broadcasting." This item of news is of national importance, and it is therefore all the more surprising that, so far as Dunedin is concerned, neither daily newspaper mentioned the matter. I submit, Sir, that it ‘is far more realistic to direct public attention to this question, than to the question of how best to set about resurrecting the dead Legislative Council. The New Zealand system of cabinet government
makes .an_ effective second chamber quite impracticable; but there are various other ways of securing the important end aimed at by the advocates of a second chamber. One of the most important of those would be to remove the stuffy hand of politics from the microphone. What might best replace the present system of political control of broadcasting, and how the urgent problems, posed by the coming of television might best be met, are questions to which there are no ready-made answers, That is why it is vitally important that a Royal Commission should carry out a thorough investigation of these matters, as a preliminary to action, And, as a speaker at the National Party Conference pointed out, in doing this New Zealand would follow a precedent set recently by Canada and Australia.
E. A.
OLSSEN
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 944, 13 September 1957, Page 11
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257RADIO AND TELEVISION New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 944, 13 September 1957, Page 11
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