The Curmudgeon

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Infotainment Prioritisation Solutions

A gold collar, dating from the Iron Age, has been discovered in a Nottinghamshire field by a tree surgeon with a metal detector. According to the head of the British Museum's Iron Age department, the discovery "opens up a whole new chapter of the history of this area". As one would expect, the country's leading liberal newspaper has nothing further to say about the archaeological significance of the find, let alone about what such objects can tell us about life in Britain two thousand years ago; however, the monetary value of the find is the first fact mentioned in the story and the first thing in the headline. Makes you proud.

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