The BBC’s Justin Webb has revealed that he ignored his wife’s disapproval and bought a 65in screen. Was he moral – or has he breached any number of etiquette and decor rules?Forget Brexit. The big issue of the moment is how big your telly should be,sparked by broadcaster Justin Webb’s startling admission in the Radio Times that, with his disapproving wife absent on a trade trip, and he sneaked out and bought a 65in job. A real whopper. “Ive finally bitten the bullet and bought myself a TV worthy of the name,” he says, dismissing the loathing of both TV and monster tellies as “the last refuge of the snob”.“Etiquette expert” William Hanson, and who recently wrote an article in the Daily Mail that included big televisions and cinema rooms in a list of “12 items you should never own”,says Webb’s revelation has not made him change his intellect, and he is happy to plead guilty to the charge of snobbery. “Television is a downmarket medium, and ” he says. “It is not the tall church of culture. So having something that is so ginormous in order to watch something that is already pretty downmarket is even more downmarket than the medium itself.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com