I see little basis for the charge that the B.B.C.
publishes too much depressing matter in its news bulletins. That the balance of the bulletins should be distorted in any way would be a serious matter, but I have seen no evidence whatever that it is. The B.B.C. does not make news, it only selects it, and does that, I think, objectively. My only complaint against the B.B.C., and against many of the daily papers equally, is that they consistently invest Signor Gayda with a wholly undeserved importance. Nothing I have read by Signor Gayda puts him any- where near on a level with the front-rank journalists in this country or France. He can no doubt fling about whirling words, but so could many other people if they tried, and the fact that he " is understood to reflect official opinion " does not mean that Signor Mussolini gives him daily directions by telephone. Yet the daily papers and the B.B.C. could hardly quote him more extensively if their prime purpose was to enhance his reputation and further his nationalistic ends.
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