Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And while the USA intelligentsia discuss the ethics of altering the colour of their President's swimming trunks, here in the UK, the Daily Mirror* places the head of the Chancellor of the Exchequer** on the body of Robin Hood http://www.mirror.co.uk/ and here http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/04/23/alistair-darling-s-robin-hood-budget-taxes-rich-to-help-poor-115875-21299571/ plus covering the story of Susan Boyle***, they place her head on countless bodies in a "celebrity makeover" feature. http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/04/22/we-give-bgt-s-susan-boyle-a-new-makeover-115875-21297748/ This from the land of the Picture Post and Sunday Times Magazine. * the Daily Mirror along with the Sun are the UK's top newspapers, not only in sales but also in writing ability. Amongst journalists this is not controversial as the average reading age of the newspapers is that of an 11 year old, and the journalists must learn to reduce national and international events to easy sentences in very limited column space. IT is easier for an intelligent educated journalist to express events in an erudite manner to an educated audience, than to convey the news in words of less than 3 syllables. ** the elected politician for England, Wales**** & Northern Ireland in charge of the money and economy. Scotland "devolved" but I'm not sure who's in charge since we have a Scot as Prime Minister. *** a competitor in "Britain's got Talent who is physically unattractive and yet has the most amazing singing voice and has started quite a few discussions about why humanity associates beauty with ability. **** Wales devolved too but then came back for a bit because they couldn't sort themselves out.