BREAKING AN EMBARGO
SIR,—Pharos said on January 6 that the People was encouraged in its brashness over the Honours List by the absence of any murmur out of any other newspaper after it did them all down so cheaply on Sunday morning (New Year's Day). The Yorkshire Post for one com- plained strongly in a leading article against this violation of an embargo. It said that those who broke embargoes were doing no good to their profession or to the public. If they were dis- satisfied with the official arrangement for the issue of the news there was a proper way to ask for a reconsideration.
Though almost all editors have been silent about the People's action it cannot be assumed that they were content with that paper's way of getting a scoop. They were probably reticent about it for the time being almost certainly because they expected the Press Council to take action.
The Yorkshire Post, Leeds
LINTON ANDREWS
Editor
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