MEDIA: Famous journalists discuss freedom of the press at literary lunch (1938)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Famous journalists discuss freedom of the press at literary lunch. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Free Press or Censor? ENGLAND: London: Grosvenor House: General view interior of dinner / Miss Christina Foyle / Wickham Steed / William Hickey & Beverley Baxter / Hannen Swaffer and Swaffer talking / people applauding / Wickham Steed talks. Sound Effects. Swaffer says that a Journalist risked his business by insisting the Government manufactured a certain kind of shell, and also that a paper printed that Madrid had fallen, because it had to fall at some time, and they wanted to be first with the news. Steed says that the Press, by standing up for Freedom, does its duty. Good Scenes. Professor Low seated at table / Vicountess Snowden seated at table / Hannen Swaffer seated at table / Wickham Steed talks. Sound Eff
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