Big Brother's logo 'defiles' White Horse

[drcuriosity]

Something is very wrong with this picture.

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A gigantic eye, familiar to fans of the television game show Big Brother, has been daubed alongside the White Horse to promote the forthcoming series of the most notorious reality television programme of all. Its vast dimensions rival that of the White Horse, which stretches 374 feet from nose to tail.

Archaeologists have demanded an inquiry into how the National Trust - which owns the site - granted permission for Channel 4 to disfigure the environs of the White Horse for such a 'tacky' reason. Conservationists condemned the marketing ploy as 'sacrilege' after it emerged that Britain's biggest landowner accepted £2,000 to allow the logo to appear beside the graceful galloping outline.

One heritage, going cheap. When I first heard this mentioned on IRC, I hoped that it was someone making a rather grim Orwellian point, not the logo of a bloody TV show. Two thousand pounds? I hope someone at the National Trust gets his delicate bits well and truly roasted over this one. This is the kind of thing that should happen in an ironic, fictional, Cyberpunk corporate future gone mad, not modern-day Britain.

Yes, I'm probably a throwback relic to an age where people actually cared about historical significance. I'm sure not everyone will indulge my pre-postmodern sensibilities. Even so, commercialism doesn't have to be so fucking crass.

Comments

[pained.livejournal.com]

2000 pounds for White Horse? I bet McDonald's could come up with 10 times that to spray golden arches on Stonehenge's trilithons....

[caycos.livejournal.com]

The practical part of me says that it was only there for a few days and is going to be washed out.

The other part of me is astounded at the temerity of it all.....

[lwoodbloo.livejournal.com]

Ouch.

That's like survivor painting their stupid logo at something of similar significance here. What crap. Boycott? Oh yes.

[drcuriosity]

Survivor Mount Rushmore, anyone?

Re:

[lwoodbloo.livejournal.com]

survivor chaco canyon would hurt me more. But I'm weird.

[atropus.livejournal.com]

nah.. "Blind Date" on the Alamo..

Or maybe "Jerry Springer" on the Pyramids?

[thatcash.livejournal.com]

Good Lord. As an anthropology major, yeah, it offends me.

[isaacfreeman.livejournal.com]

It took me a while to figure out that it was the "White Horse", and not the "White House".

[adrexia.livejournal.com]

*sigh*
That's absolutly terrible.
Who would even think of doing anything like that?

Yikes.

[iceprincesswhn.livejournal.com]

I get offended when they paint letters on mountains around here. I nearly vomited over the big controversy we had about "A Mountain" (or, as it's really called, Sentinel Peak) and the debate in city counsil as to whether to paint the giant gaudy "A" on the side of it red white and blue. The sollution? The city counsil members who were for it snuck up there in the middle of the night and painted it when no one was looking. Then police patrols were put in place to protect their vandalism from farther vandalism.
Apparently, however, we got off light. At least no one sprayed an advertisment for Dawsons Creek on the San Xaiver del Bac mission or anything.
In a work, ick.

C.