6 DECEMBER 1957, Page 8

THE POT, Miss Marghanita Laski suggests in our correspondence columns,

is calling the kettle black, when people like myself abuse commercial television for putting on advertising magazines. What, she asks, about our supplements? Well, to begin with, my complaint was not about the TV advertising magazines themselves (they are often better than the other programmes); I was objecting simply to the flagrant breach of the TV Act, which, on my reading, specifically forbids them. I still fail to see how Sir Robert Fraser or anybody else can interpret the Act's instructions that no programmes shall be included which have been supplied or even suggested by an advertiser : what else are advertising maga- zines?