Monday, September 23, 2013

A titillating piece of nonsense

Totally bizarre review of a soap opera by Owen Jones, one of the left's supposed rising stars:  http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/review-downton-abbey-season-4-premiere--a-fascinating-insight-into-the-quiet-violence-of-the-class-system-8833120.html

Downton Abbey is an anachronistic work of fiction, written and produced by people who have no first-hand knowledge of the period in question.

It is a titillating piece of nonsense filled with errors, modernisms and highly fanciful scenarios.

For an Independent writer to take this rubbish seriously makes one wonder whether dumbing-down is adequate as a descriptor.

What next one wonders?

Steve Richards using Hollyoaks as a guide to the way we live now?

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown drawing sociological insights from the latest X-Factor?

When the Independent starts dropping its standards one fears for the future of the media.

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