Indeed he never really lost a certain aristocratic contempt for television and dismissed as ludicrously self-important the views of those television executives who believed that “a thing said simultaneously to 15 million people will carry more influence than something said privately at a pub or dinner party or picked up elsewhere in the course of the day.”I suspect he never got the hang of Twitter.
That's the problem with Twitter though. No ability to share drinks..
ReplyDeleteThe last two people whose deaths I found out about from this blog were Tony Wilson and Oliver Postgate. I had nothing against Ludovic Kennedy (quite liked him in that episode of 'Yes, Minister'), but this is much more like it.
ReplyDeleteWhere's the Mail column slagging him off? I assumed they do it for everyone.
ReplyDeleteBoz: Twinks.
ReplyDeleteChris: He played drums in a jazz band with Humphrey Lyttelton. Can't have been a bad bloke.
Billy: No, he died of pneumonia, not of gayness.