Let’s not be antisocial
In times of fairly recent memory, the mainstream media (MSM) talked about the goings-on in the countryside in a markedly different way to what we see today.
Phil Drabble appeared weekly on our screens, twinkling on about sheep and dogs, fell hounds and uplands. Tack Hargreaves sat in his shed entertaining viewers with everything from fowling and ploughing to fly-fishing and dwile flonking — a pub game for the initiated. The results of the Waterloo Cup were published in all broadsheets. Newspapers carried a weekend angling section.
That is not to say that the MSM of 30 years ago was a nirvana of pro-country sports journalism.
Animal rights types still had their letters to the editor published. Hunting received a. The Glorious Twelfth was frequently portrayed in the red tops as being not all that glorious.
