Friday 1 June 2012

Porkies and the PAS

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"Blimey, I’ve shut down a 600-strong state-funded forum!" exclaims Nigel Swift ('PAS Says we are trolls!') in response to the British Museum's PAS presentation about "Barriers to State-Funded Promotion of Artefact Collecting Among the British Public" (or whatever it is they think they are doing).
It’s an outrage a paper on internet ‘trolls’ falsely suggests archaeological posters were exactly that. [....]  Unfortunately though, the public who paid for [the PAS Forum] aren’t being allowed to see it. I share [Paul Barford's] view that the reason for that is probably that it displays realities that don’t chime with some of the things PAS has been saying for many years. Such a lack of transparency leaves the public open to misinformation – and this casual and effortless transmuting of metal detectorist trolls into archaeological ones is merely the latest instance of that. Political correctness is one thing but I have to wonder, as I have been wondering for many years, what on earth is a taxpayer-funded quango doing constantly misinforming the public?
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Open the PAS Forum archives, with ALL the old posts displayed. Let the people who pay for the PAS see who the real "trolls" were, let them see just who and what it is the PAS is now "partnering".

Vignette: A lot of taxpayer's money going towards what...? (courtesy Heritage Action)

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