Farmers have been saying for some days that there is no need for the media to keep showing 2001 pictures of burning pyres and dead animals being loaded into lorries.
So it's interesting to see Andrew Grant-Adamson saying much the same on his blog.
On the evidence so far, the Government has learned from the disaster of the 2001 outbreak of foot and mouth disease but the media have not. TV reports — the story missed the early editions of the papers that we get in this part of the country — are played out against wallpaper of of the Stygian images of flames and smoke from pyres and carcasses suspended from cranes.It is like deciding the pictures from a current war are not dramatic enough so we are using some from an earlier one.
In a interlude from this wallpaper in an ITN report we get a brief shot of the the chief vet who says there will be "no pyres, no burning of carcasses". Then it is back to film of pyres and their preparation. It is much the same on other channels.