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iPod Gets The Royal Nod
frostilicus2 writes "Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England seems to have taken quite an interest in technology recently. She's now getting hip and funky with an Apple iPod." From the article: "If the thought of the Queen trolling through Apple's online jukebox, iTunes looking for 'hits' is a little too much for the frontal lobes, the Sun assures its readers that, like most things, she probably has a footman to do it for her."
I think its probably about time to point out that The Sun is a brand of toilet paper with funny pictures and words printed on it to entertain while you take a dump. To quote it in with any seriousness outside the bathroom just isn't done.
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The only thing wrong is expecting any kind of journalism from The Sun, let alone 'top quality' journalism.
This is the sort of paper that uses bold and italics in its editorials, just to make sure you get the point.
Enough said, I think.
The Sun is knowingly, amusingly and mostly-harmlessly lowbrow. Sure, it prints a load of rubbish, but it knows that just as well as we do, and nobody takes it too seriously. The Mail is poisonous, self-important and comes damn near to inciting hate crime imho.
Lots of people are making jokes but to me it's kind of profound. People speak of music as being universal and stories like this drive it home for me. Ok she is probably not listening to White Stripe but she is most certainly listening to Bach and maybe even some modern music from her youth. I even imagine she might listen to steely dan or joni mitchell.
Anyway the point is that she might very well be listening the same music as you are and that says something about the power of music to reach people of all ages, cultures, or strata in the society.
evil is as evil does