WWW:
The Guardian manages to be sniffy about the monument
Thanks for the link. Frankly I would have not expected much else from it, and no doubt the piece will sit happily on the breakfast tables of much of its readership. But that is surely the point? 55573 good men gave their lives so that Mr Rowan Moore might have the freedom to write such a sneering and loftily superior diatribe. If you don't like what they publish then don't buy the Guardian. Simples!
Unfortunately the same does not go for its broadcasting cousin, the BBC. We are all obliged, if we wish to watch any TV at all, to subsidise its editorial slant. It may not be as explicit as the Guardian but they are both birds of a feather. Either the Beeb should do what it is supposed to, ie be a
National Broadcaster, or it should pack it in and hand over the reins to one that is prepared.
Yesterday, just when I was beginning to think, "Well, that didn't go too badly", the Beeb position was spelled out in a talking heads voice over at the conclusion of the unveiling and dedication of the BC Memorial OB:
" Of course, many of the veterans now feel guilty about what they did".
Says who?
Why the Beeb of course, the voice and conscience of our nation.
In its dreams!