In message , Bill Wright
writes
I've just seen an advert on BBC-1 for the government's digital switchover
help scheme. This is intended to help those over 75 make the switch from
analogue to digital TV. The advert showed a garulous old fool who seemed to
lack social awareness and common sense. The young relative and the young
engineer exchanged meaningful glances, as if to say, "She can't help being
daft; she's old." How incredibly patronising and insulting this is to the
very people they claim to be helping. It seems that in modern Britain,
whilst racism is almost a capital offence, ageism is officially condoned.

As patronising as the item on Country tracks on Sunday, where they
interviewed "The worlds biggest liar" who spilled a yarn about how
Sellafield (or somewhere) wasn't powered by nuclear energy, but by ducks
(or something)

Why they felt a need to run a text across the picture explaining that
this wasn't true really made me wonder ...

--
geoff