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As announced last week in this column, the Postmaster-General is about to set up a committee to consider the development of television, and to advise on the conditions under which any public television service should be provided. It is understood that the personnel of the committee is to consist of representatives of the Post Office, the British Broadcasting Corporation, and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. A committee so constituted, presuming that some of the members have practical knowledge of the problems involved in television, would command that measure of public confidence which is necessary if its deliberations are to find general acceptance; and it would be an advance on many Commissions and committees appointed by the Government in this respect. For reasons which it is difficult to understand, there has been a lamentable tendency on the part of Ministers to pass over scientific men in setting up Royal Commissions, committees, and departmental committees, even when matters in which scientific and technical issues are involved.
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Representation of Science on Government Commissions. Nature 133, 716 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133716a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133716a0