Are we becoming a nation of Philistines? When a major work of art is damaged it should be considered a sad event and in many cases a cultural catastrophe. But this week, when a clumsy boy carrying a soda can tripped into a 350-year-old painting worth 1.5 million dollars, leaving a gash in the art work, both NBC and ABC News considered it an amusing story. Neither one of their tongue-in-cheek reports suggested that this damaging of a painting titled Flowers in a Taiwan museum was in any way a bad thing. First of all this clumsy oaf should have been supervised, and secondly why was he allowed to carry a soda can through a museum? But he's young and stupid and not expected to know better, but the editors at NBC and ABC should have enough intelligence to know that this story should not be treated as comical filler. Boorish jerks!
Note: I'm surprised these networks weren't roaring with hilarity
when ISIS destroyed the ancient city of Palmyra.
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
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