Views on News

Before the British Association for the Advancement of Science in London last week up rose two of the world's most vocal thinkers to speak their minds about the press.

H. G. Wells, popular historian of the past and of the future: "I have a profound conviction that the newspaper is as dead as mutton and that it will never come back. When we want to know the time we do not consult the newspaper. We ring up a charming young lady called 'Time.' Shall we be able, when things get going again, to dial 'News' and shall we not listen then to a summary of what has been happening in the last two or three hours? It seems to me a much more possible and much more reasonable way of getting the news than our despairing attempts of buying three or four newspapers to find out what is being concealed from us. . . ."

Professor J. B. S. Haldane, renowned biologist and biochemist: ". . . We have to see that every newspaper has at least one scientifically trained reporter, just as they have reporters learned in crime, sports and politics. We should try to urge that all newspapers have scientific and technical advisers."

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