Mirelle
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No more obscene pictures in \"Classic Boat\", please.
I picked up my copy of the March issue last night and got around to reading the stuff that I don't usually bother with - the billionaire's toys section, which seems to be creeping back into Classic Boat after earlier Editiorial committments to cut down on this drivel. It is too easy to write this "Hello!" magazine tosh, and too hard to write a proper article, no doubt.
The photo on the lower part of page 26 met my eye.
The sight of members of the Burmese military leering over a fake Fife being built in Burma is , frankly, obscene.
The customary Classic Boat gushing write up has the owner (?) coming out with the usual sanctions' breaker's "line" that "..the country is suffering from the sanctions imposed on it, and the people are too poor to do anything. The sanctions don't really affect the ruling military generals and all the while the Chinese are getting more influence, espescially in the logging industry..."
Yeah, sure. Just what we used to hear about South Africa. And not what Nelson Mandela or Aung Sung Suu Kyii said or are saying.
Classic Boat, on the other hand, tells us that the way to help the poor Burmese is to pay the aforesaid ruling military generals to obtain the right to pay Burmese workers a pittance to build toys for the extremely wealthy. How much of the build price went into the pockets of the military? Rather a lot, to judge from the smiles on page 26.
The editorial team should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
They should learn how to run this sort of magazine properly. To do so, they need only glance across the Atlantic and across the Channel at Wooden Boat, Le Chasse-Maree and Maritime Life and Traditions.
I am utterly disgusted.
And I bet this thread gets pulled.
I picked up my copy of the March issue last night and got around to reading the stuff that I don't usually bother with - the billionaire's toys section, which seems to be creeping back into Classic Boat after earlier Editiorial committments to cut down on this drivel. It is too easy to write this "Hello!" magazine tosh, and too hard to write a proper article, no doubt.
The photo on the lower part of page 26 met my eye.
The sight of members of the Burmese military leering over a fake Fife being built in Burma is , frankly, obscene.
The customary Classic Boat gushing write up has the owner (?) coming out with the usual sanctions' breaker's "line" that "..the country is suffering from the sanctions imposed on it, and the people are too poor to do anything. The sanctions don't really affect the ruling military generals and all the while the Chinese are getting more influence, espescially in the logging industry..."
Yeah, sure. Just what we used to hear about South Africa. And not what Nelson Mandela or Aung Sung Suu Kyii said or are saying.
Classic Boat, on the other hand, tells us that the way to help the poor Burmese is to pay the aforesaid ruling military generals to obtain the right to pay Burmese workers a pittance to build toys for the extremely wealthy. How much of the build price went into the pockets of the military? Rather a lot, to judge from the smiles on page 26.
The editorial team should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
They should learn how to run this sort of magazine properly. To do so, they need only glance across the Atlantic and across the Channel at Wooden Boat, Le Chasse-Maree and Maritime Life and Traditions.
I am utterly disgusted.
And I bet this thread gets pulled.
