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Article: Nelson's no fallen hero. (television program review)
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- March 5, 2002
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Byline: PETER PATERSON
HAS TV's taste for iconoclasm gone out of fashion? It wasn't long ago that any admired hero of history was being dragged from his, or her, pedestal to face speculative charges of cowardice, incompetence, dishonesty, paedophilia, wife beating, or worse.
From Florence Nightingale to Boy Scout founder Baden Powell, from General Gordon to Douglas Bader, all were depicted with feet of gooey clay.
Reputations tumbled - or would have done had not viewers complained that today's standards of political correctness cannot be applied retrospectively, and that many of the allegations came from puppy-dog researchers with little sense ...