THE resignation of Lord Holmes of Cheltenham will, we feel, be welcomed by people concerned about standards in public life.
May we now wish secretary of state Chris Smith better luck in his next selection of a chairman, for the critically important Broadcasting Standards Commission?
Preferably, he/she being a person who understands the processes of education and training, in which visual images play such an important role for good or for evil.
Coronation Street's "broken family" with its 14-year-old unmarried mother will have delighted those concerned with this problem, in a society that seemingly accepts Institutionalised Child Neglect as the norm.
More worrying however, are subliminal messages in programmes put out by minority interests, apparently with an intent to brainwash.
C J WAREING, Chairman,
Midlands Regional Branch, National Viewers & Listeners Association.
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