good read Winston Smith has plenty to do

[Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: Bob Gourley <bob () crucialpointllc com>
> Date: June 15, 2010 9:28:09 PM EDT
> To: dfarber () me com
> Subject: Winston Smith has plenty to do

> Dave,
>
> For IP if you wish:
>
> Remember the task of Winston Smith?  He labored on as a clerk in the
> Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, where he helped rewrite
> historical documents to make them match the party line.
>
> He appears to be at work in London today.
>
> For photo and story see:
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1286620/Churchill-non-smoker-How-todays-PC-censors-airbrushed-cigar.html
>
> Some text below:
>
> Spot the difference: How today's airbrushing PC censors decided
> Churchill could do without his cigar
> By BETH HALE
>
> The face is instantly familiar, the two-fingered salute unmistakable.
> But are these actually the same photograph of Sir Winston Churchill?
> In the original photograph the war leader has his cigar gripped firmly
> in the corner of his mouth.
> But in the other image - currently greeting visitors to a London
> museum - his favourite smoke has been digitally extinguished.
>
> Uniform, victory salute and cigar: Winston Churchill in the 1940s and
> now without his trademark smoke
>
> It seems the man who steered Britain through the most dangerous period
> of its recent history may have fallen victim to the modern curse of
> political correctness.
>
> Last night the question of who removed the cigar and when was
> something of a mystery.
>
> The Winston Churchill's Britain At War Experience, in South-East
> London, confessed to being astonished to discover that the image may
> have been doctored.
>
> The Britain At War Experience in South-East London with the airbrushed
> picture of Churchill above the entrance
> Which is a little embarrassing for the staff at the charitable trust,
> because the photograph features on a giant poster hanging above the
> museum's main door.
>
> So just who did pinch the great man's Havana?
>
> It wasn't the anti-smoking lobby, which has had no known contact with
> the museum; it certainly wasn't Churchill's family - his grandson
> Nicholas Soames said 'it doesn't matter one way or the other'; and it
> wasn't the museum itself - in fact it's got wartime posters
> advertising cigarettes on the walls.
>
> But intriguingly the museum, which gives all profits to charity,
> declined to name who put together the display and, crucially, who
> enlarged the image for the poster.
>
> =========================================
>
>
> Bob Gourley
> http://ctovision.com
> http://crucialpointllc.com
> bob () crucialpointllc com
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