Bevanite Broadcasting
SIR,—I can assure Mr. Adrian Brunel that I was not complaining in my original letter about Bevanite broadcasters. I wished merely to indicate that their broadcasting success might have had an effect on the Morecambe Conference. .
But I would like to complain now. Why did they make so many broadcasts in the first half of this year I do not question their right of expression, but I do query the prominence they secured. Mr. Brunel says that " they are, on the whole, better broadcasters than most of their Right Wing colleagues." All I can say is that out of nearly three hundred Labour M.P.s it should be possible to provide a team of broadcasters at least as good.
One other question: Who chooses the speakers in any series of programmes, apart from the official party broadcasts ? If it is one man, the producer, then he seems to me to wield great political power, for, by the people he includes or omits, he can make or mar the case of Government or Opposition or any other group. It seems, therefore, that this is a question which deserves serious attention.
Mr. Brunel is a Liberal. I am a Conservative, and I view the extensive powers of the B.B.C., if not with alarm, at least with apprehension. Furthermore, I think that its attitude in political broad- casts is not always as fair and balanced as is so usually thought.—
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