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LIVELY DISCUSSION 'IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.
LAB. MOTION PASSED,
SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1928.
dent who wrote that that the sug- gestions he made had little rela- tion to accuracy,
However desirable might be the object underlying this motion, he continued,the difficultiea of carry- ing it into effect were insuperable.
Uns of the most striking and mischievous examples of the syndicated Press at the present June was the Daily Herald, whose proud boast it was that it was un An interesting discussion took der the control of the organised place in the House. of Com-Labour Movement.
|mons recently, when Mr. Tinker From the national point of view
(Soc, Leigh) moved:
such control was worse than papers That, in the opinion of this controlled by comprehensive and House, the maintenance of inde- widespread financial and business pendent organs for the dissemina-interests, because those who
tion of news is vital to the pre- governed the paper were inclined servation of the standard of publico look at. maiters from a narrow life in the country, and that the and partisan ståndpoint, consolidation of the newspaper Press, in the hands of powerful syndicales, and some of the des vices employed by these syndicates to extend the circulation of the newspapers under their control, are contrary to the public interest.
The real remedy for the cylla was for all parties to educate people to be-leas prone to take their opinions from newspapers. Ha! believed newspapers to-day had less Influence in political affairs than in the past.
He called attention to the various efforts which were being made by Mr. T. J. O'Connor (C. Luton), combines to get control of news-supporting the motion, wondered papers in order to influence public whether the present lack of de- opinion.
corum of the Press did not follow and commonplace in the outlook of from something inherent, garish,
our-present democracy.
He condemned the syndicated Press, and said it was up to them to try and get an independent Press in the interest of the coun- try. He urged the House to take into consideration the possibility of the entire Press of this country, Becoming a monopoly in the hands of a great ayndicate. He was against wealthy persons controlling the destinies of the people by moans of the synicated Press.
The newspaper
combines in operation, he said, were the Rother mere group.controlling five large neyspapers The Beaverbrook. group with
four, the Cadbury group with three, the Berry group with 21, and the Starmer group with. 30.
A conservative member-What about the Daily Herald!
Mr. Tinker-It is, independent for the time being!
Proceeding, he said that in or der to get control of public opinion, the Combines increased the cir- culations of their papers by foot- ball competitions--one such for a prize of £10,000-and by free insurance. These methods Je characterised as "deplorable.”
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He was against men of wealth controlling the destinies of our people. (Hear, hear.) He could ace the few Independent journals passing eventually into the hands of the combines, and then the com- bines coming together with a man at the head, who would be able control public opinion. Ho did Hot want that to happen.
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He predicted that in the organ which condemned the principles of the Prime Minister, the report of his statement on the rubber ques tion would be accompanied by state- ments that it would greatly upset the race meetings, that it would have an alarming effect on the future of lawn tennis, and that from one end of the paper to the other, readers would and such sug- gestions intimately interwoven by a cunning, thread so that the whole news organisation of the paper was used to present a wholly falso pic- ture the public.
Mr. Enell (Soc. Woolwich, East) said that there was a feeling that the free Press for which our fore- fathers fought so valiantly WILK becoming a slave Press to the economic forces by which it was operated. A new danger was developing in regard to the spiritual life of the community.
The syndicated Fress was not a porter of fact, but a selector of facts. He concluded with an ap peal to workers of the Ilterary side of newspapers to have regard to the serious nature of their calling and to make a stand in protection of the highest traditions of the journalistic profession.
Waning Influence.
Mr. A. Hopkinson (nd, Monaley) said that to call attention to the Beaverbrook Press or Rothermere Press or Lloyd George-Rufus Isaacs Press was work of supererogation, because they could be trasted to call attention to themselves,
Mr. Charleton 480e. Lends, South), supporting the notion said that this syndicalism was
The power of the Press was im- krasping the Press of the country within its claw and crushing out, mensely exaggerated, and its in- fluence was waning at un BC- the real journalism. We used to
Two groups of be noted for the sturdy indepen-celerated pace. dence of our Press, but with the papers had come to the conclusion growth of the syndicated Press that it was a personal spite to the we were getting something dif- noble proprietors that the Prime ferent. What a tragic occurrence Minister should have a reputation, it would be if the Yorkshire Past whether justified or otherwise, for were pushed out of Yorkshire. being more or less honest. Any- one looking at some of the articles Hear, hear.) He did not agres with its political opinions, but it on the "Flapper Vole" must see was a newspaper which they could that the Press was prostituting it- respect.
Helf to such an extent that its power must vanish. What the syndicated Press did mostly was to boust its circulation He would be sorry if the ac and the number of prizes it gave, tivities of Lord Rothermere should as well as all sorts of "stunts" like have that disastrous reault. The standard bread, growing sweet | Press should have a modified power peas, cooking your food in paper to guide and inform public opinion. Bags, and all that nonsense. The in particular, it should state the whole position of journalism was facts known to it when a Parlia endangered. The ordinary work-mentary candidate came forward, ing journalist never knew when who was unfitted to represent his This great octopus would come
fellow-country-men. along and buy up his paper.
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As Sir W. Sugden (C. Hartlepools) the Press became more syndicated, said the Press gave what the so the news became more unfair public asked for. If it called for Mr. Rentoul (C. Lowestoft) Baiduplift, it would get it. Whatever that hardly a single member of might be said about our Press, the the House would disagree with the American Press, on the whole, was general motives and underlying drivel. "I think," he said, "the principles of this motion.
cruellest thing that could be done to any member of this House would All parties had suffered from be to report him verbatim." time to time from the mischievous (Laughter, and "Bear, hear.") activities of the Press, syndicated and otherwise,
Mr. J. Jones (Soc. Silvertown) described the daily Press 48 4 in point was the ex-"barrel A case
organ .of millionaire perience some Conservative mem- hers were having at the present opinion," while the weekly Press
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кая factory," Workers moment in regard to suggestions bought these newspapers but re- that were being made as to what fused to swallow their politics. happened in the Division Lobby on
recent night wh the Equal Franchise Bill. (Heary hear.}
Motion Carried.
Mr. Ponsonby (Soc. Brightalde) **I sce in certain syndicated believed that the passing of the papers tonight," said Mr. Rentoul, motion would start a public discus- "The statement that definite in-sion all over the country, and that structions have been issued to, those after a time the House would be of us, who for good reasons were forend to deal drastically with the absent from that division, that
matter..
we are to say nothing about it.
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If that is the case, I can only in- Capt. Bourne (C. Oxford) said form the House that so far as I that it was not in the interest of am concerned those instructions the country that the newspapers must have miscarried in the post." should be controlled by a (Laughter.)
group of persons, but he did not see what remedy could be applied. Mischievous. Examples.
Sir R. Lynn (C, Belfast, W.) de- A socialist
most member--Where scribed the debate as the were you?
futile ho had ever heard. (Hear, hear.) He was not in favour of Mr.
Rentoul-A more mis-syndicated newspapers, but he did chievous example of the way some not believe the free and indepen- Presu organs endeavour to misro-dent Press of this country could present public opinion it would be be stified by a few wealthy persons. dificult to find, and no one knows The motion was agreed to without better than the polleal correspon-a division.
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