I SEE THAT Sir Linton Andrews disagrees my view that
'nobody in the profession the Press Council seriously.' Why, then—le --do the Newspaper Proprietors' Associatio Newspaper Society, the NUJ, the Institut so on all contribute to finance the Press CI and send their nominees to share in the Would these hard-headed people waste their r on something hypocritical and useless? T quite the most naive sentiment I have ever Sir Linton express, and that is saying some Of course all these bodies send their nomint and help to finance, the Press Council; this way they can ensure that it does not m nuisance of itself to Fleet Street. They are headed enough to see that they might othc be faced with a very different type of Co with the will and the means to stop press al instead of merely rebuking offenders with platitudes. And to say that because Fleet moguls finance the Press Council (how I incidentally, is the total amount involved?, cannot despise it, is like saying that because J Hoffa finances certain judges to get the ve lo, or it' ake a hard. rwise ad, buses, Pi°115 Street luch, they vies 1110 he requires, he cannot despise them. Of course he doeal The Council will continue to be regarded with contempt so long as it continues to prate about its services in cleaning up the press while dis- creetly ignoring incidents like the recent Sketch stunt.
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