Is Our News Service Adequate?

Radio Record, Volume IX, Issue 13, 4 October 1935, Page 50

Is Our News Service Adequate?

To the Editor. Sir.-Recently our set required overhauling and we had the thrill of an allwave for a few days. Why can we not have a news service, the same as other countries? Germany broadcasts news in severa] languages several times a day. The biggest thrill was from Russia. From one station we heard dn, account of public health activities, kindergarten and medical research. Three times the nuiwber of students are in training for public health activities than were training five years ago, all medical services .are: absolutely free to the people, and students are paid during etudy period. Have the -publie not an inalienable right to news + its earliest possible receipt instead Qf it being witbheld until it is stale? ‘I have not turned Red. but when 1 get a glimpse of the outside world I am ini «lined to the view that our much-vaunted isolation is self-intlicted.-I am, ete..

PLAIN HOUSEWIFE

Levin.

iNo one known to be a political candidate is permitted to broadcast from the national stations unless he is-a mayor breng casting in that officia] capacity only. -Tid.