Desist from Stereotyping

I suppose we all stereotype people. It's a kind of short-cut, a lazy way to get us through life... keep us out of trouble.
Big muscular guys with skin-head hairstyles, tattoos from neck to ankle, Doc Martin boots - we will tend to give them a wide berth at 2 am on a Sunday morning. Yet such people may be the most gentle of souls. It's just that for safety's sake we will not give them the benefit of the doubt.
Now I tend to stereotype tv presenters, especially those who may appear in the "family slot" like 5-8 pm at the week-end. I do not watch much tv, but I avoid this segment as Tony Blair avoids his constituency's rubber chicken darts nights.
One such presenter is David Dickensen, the camp (though, apparently straight - not that it matters) presenter of some antique show that crops up around this time. The guy, is not in the first flush of youth (note, ageism on my part , though I have long since been expelled from the 18-30 travel club for failure to know about the 60's - I was there...) He has this amazing tan that any Costa residing Brit would kill for, and he can jabber on about Chippendale furniture till Thomas Adam fireplaces go up in smoke.
So this bloke has a unfailing talent to send me to sleep after less than 3 minutes "viewing". I might add that I deeply resent antiques. They get in the way of all the stuff we should be designing today for today - instead of sitting around this old crap, that class-conscious Brits feel they need to clutter up their physical space - Is it any wonder they cannot cope with the 21st Century. I say physical space... I am not a phillistine. I enjoy history, dead poets, writers, objects d'art. It's just the physical space. It's so damn finite.
Anyway, looks like I got this Dickensian Dickensen geyser totally wrong. Asked in an interview what living person he most admired...(I was expecting, in my prejudice, the toxic Margaret Thatcher, or the pretzel-choking, Bush Jnr.) He only says John Pilger... John Blooddy Pilger. Are my ears playing tricks?... only the bravest, most admirable Australian, that ever struck the keys of a Remington typwriter. The ballsiest journalist living today. (I'm not Australian, by the way).
John Pilger has said recently
"The conscious nature of Tony Blair's lies and distortions over Iraq is now clear. Collectors will have their favourites. Mine is his statement in Parliament on 29th January that "we do know of links between al-Quaeda and Iraq". As the Intelligence agencies have repeatedly confirmed, there were no links and Blair would have known this. Looking back this lie sought to justify his statement, in October 2001, that there would be a "wider war" against Iraq only if there was "absolute evidence" of his complicity in 11 September. Of course there was no evidence and Blair would have known this too......"
Thank you John Pliger, and thank you Mr Dickensen.