Sir,
Isn't it about time that
News Weekly had a new title?
Since 1985,
News Weekly has been a fortnightly periodical and has had several changes in design and layout since it was founded in 1949, so why not a change in name?
When our beloved founder of blessed memory, B.A. Santamaria, established
News Weekly, he was concerned not so much with the name but with the contents and with the messages and warnings it had to give to the Australian people. It has fulfilled that task admirably.
That is why it should have a title that reflects and emphasises its reason for existence.
I suggest the title
Monitor, a Latin word which means "teacher" or "warner", i.e., one who teaches or warns of dangers ahead.
Today there are two problems with the name
News Weekly.
First, it is not longer a weekly but a fortnightly publication.
Second, there are other periodicals with similar names with which it can be confused (and has been, in my experience, when urging people to become subscribers)
For instance, there is
Newsweek, a left-liberal American magazine containing articles and opinions often inimical to our philosophy. There is also the lowbrow "celebrity" Australian magazine
New Weekly (some people I approached for subscriptions to
News Weekly thought I was trying to sell them
New Weekly).
So, surely, now is the time to bestow upon our esteemed journal a title which accurately describes its true purpose and
raison d'être, one of which our great founder had in mind when he founded it.
What do other subscribers think?
Don Ford,
Ashfield, NSW
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