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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 8 (February 1, 1933)

Spoken Wisdom

Spoken Wisdom.

At one time publicity through broadcasting was feared. Politicians believed that to broadcast statements on political or controversial subjects would cause international and internal explosions. Some of the worst kinds of political propaganda had been put on the air in various countries, and there was some feeling in Britain that in controversial matters the broadcast would have to be dumb. But the peculiarly constituted British Broadcasting Corporation, which is neither a private profit-maker nor a political department, has waded so carefully into the seas of controversy that it is reaching the public with heaps of live information from big authorities on all kinds of issues (example, Lord Lytton on the Manchurian Commission) and the explosions have been few. The settled dispute with Poland, concerning a broadcast reference to Polish spending on armaments, will, it is hoped, be the exception that proves the rule.