8 Quotes by Hilda Matheson

free citizenship may be less safe, in the long run, in the keeping of big business than in that of the representatives of the people. . . .Vested interests, in other words, may become a harder taskmaster than democratic governments.

It is no use deciding what people ought to learn without at the same time considering how it may be made interesting — without, in fact, an unremitting study of human psychology.

It is the mechanization of mind and imagination that we instinctively resist.

A generation accustomed to relate much of its thought to spoken English may question whether even our words need remodelling as well as our spelling, if they are to be adequate for new purposes and ideas.

In the United States news is on the whole treated with respect. Stations operated by newspapers naturally supply listeners with news selected or presented on the lines of their own papers; but any hint of obvious manipulation would be quickly resented.

Broadcasting is mainly not concerned with crowds, but with separate listeners, and . . . the ordinary tricks of rhetorical appeal do not usually succeed without the physical existence of a crowd.

The tendency of democratic authorities is to acquiesce in any broadcasting which does not offend against decency and which is not subversive of the state. The point is rapidly being approached at which the precise interpretation of these principles will become exceedingly interesting.

If we have the sense to give (broadcasting) freedom and intelligent direction, if we save it from exploitation by vested interests of money or power, its influence may even redress the balance in favour of the individual.